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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      24 August 2023
      07 September 2023
      ISBN:
      9781108863742
      9781108491563
      9781108798471
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108863742
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 238 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.35kg, 238 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Grammar and Syntax, Sociolinguistics, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Studies in Language Variation and Change
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    Subjects:
    Grammar and Syntax, Sociolinguistics, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Studies in Language Variation and Change
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    Book description

    Variation studies is an increasingly popular area in linguistics, becoming embedded in curriculum design, conferences, and research. However, the field is at risk of fragmenting into different research communities with different foci. This pioneering book addresses this by establishing a canon of state-of-the-art quantitative methods to analyze grammatical variation from a comparative perspective. It explains how to use these methods to investigate large datasets in a responsible fashion, providing a blueprint for applying techniques from corpus linguistics, variationist, and dialectometric traditions in novel ways. It specifically explores the scope and limits of syntactic variability in a global language such as English, and investigates three grammatical alternations in nine varieties of English, exploring what we can learn about the grammatical choices that people make based on both observational and experimental data. Comprehensive yet accessible, it will be of interest to academic researchers and students of sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and World Englishes.

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    Contents

    Contents
    • Frontmatter
      pp i-iv
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    • Dedication
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    • Contents
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    • List of Figures
      pp ix-x
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    • List of Tables
      pp xi-xii
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    • Series Editor’s Preface
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    • Acknowledgments
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    • Data Availability Statement
      pp xvii-xviii
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    • 1 - Introduction
      pp 1-11
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    • 2 - Grammatical and Syntactic Variation
      pp 12-33
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    • 3 - World Englishes and Dialect Typology
      pp 34-55
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    • 4 - The Data
      pp 56-81
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    • 5 - Alternation-by-Alternation Analysis
      pp 82-111
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    • 6 - Distances, Similarities, and Coherence
      pp 112-140
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    • 7 - Experimental Corroboration
      pp 141-165
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    • 8 - Where Are We Now, and Where to Next?
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    • References
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    • Index
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