Personal profile
Research interests
My main research interests are in corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, and dialectology. I am especially interested in grammatical and lexical variation in the English language across time, space and communicative context. I also develop methods for quantitative linguistic analysis and authorship attribution.
Biography
I am from Vancouver and studied at Simon Fraser University and Northern Arizona University. Before moving to the University of Birmingham in 2017, I held a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Leuven and a Lecturership in Forensic Linguistics at Aston University.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 13 Climate Action
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Lexical variation and change: Integrating lexis into variationist sociolinguistics
Sandow, R., Grieve, J., Stamp, R. & Schembri, A., 9 Jan 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Language Variation and Change. 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Attributing authorship via the perplexity of authorial language models
Huang, W., Murakami, A. & Grieve, J., 3 Jul 2025, In: PLOS One. 20, 7, e0327081.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling
Grieve, J., Bartl, S., Fuoli, M., Grafmiller, J., Huang, W., Jawerbaum, A., Murakami, A., Perlman, M., Roemling, D. & Winter, B., 13 Jan 2025, In: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. 7, 18 p., 1472411.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling
Grieve, J., Bartl, S., Fuoli, M., Grafmiller, J., Huang, W., Napolitano Jawerbaum, A., Murakami, A., Perlman, M., Roemling, D. & Winter, B., 13 Jan 2025, In: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. 7, 18 p., 1472411.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Veracity and register in fake news analysis
Baissa, B., Fuoli, M. & Grieve, J., 14 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Linguistics Vanguard. 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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LASO: Linguistic Analysis of Sex Offender Interactions on Dark Web Forums
Grieve, J. (Principal Investigator)
22/10/18 → 31/07/19
Project: Research
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‘A diachronic move analysis of the patent specification genre, 1711 – 2011’ (with Jack Grieve).
Groom, N. (Speaker) & Grieve, J. (Speaker)
Aug 2018Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Conference, workshop or symposium
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‘Analysing change in a diachronic corpus of patents: The case of move analysis’ (with Jack Grieve).
Groom, N. (Speaker) & Grieve, J. (Speaker)
2018Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Conference, workshop or symposium
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'From gene sequencing to genre sequencing: A corpus-based analysis of British patents of invention, 1711 - 2011' (with Jack Grieve).
Groom, N. (Invited speaker) & Grieve, J. (Invited speaker)
31 Oct 2017Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Guest lecture or Invited talk