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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"variationist linguistics"”.
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Conceptualizing Variation in Greek Exodus and Postclassical Greek
… these sentiments still abound, recent studies in variationist linguistics paint a more complex picture of language production. Specifically, variation in argument realization indicates that such intentional cross-linguistic lexical pairing was unlikely. In light of documentary texts, Greek …
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Cross-generational linguistic variation in the Canberra Vietnamese heritage language community: A corpus-centred investigation
… the investigation (Chapter 5), where I use the variationist approach (Labov, 1972 et seq.) to explore three cases where null and overt realisation alternates in Vietnamese: subjects, objects, and copulas. In doing so, I move away from the bilingual portion of CanVEC to examine the monolingual …
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Speech in space and time: Contact, change and diffusion in medieval Norway
This project uses corpus linguistics and geostatistics to test the sociolinguistic typological theory put forward by Peter Trudgill on the history of Norwegian. The theory includes several effects of societal factors on language change. Most discussed is the proposal that ‘intensive’ language …