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Zusatztext '...the text is revelatory... refreshing and illuminating... I wish I had written this book. It is comrehensive yet concise. And it is relevant. Students and practiced variationists alike can learn something from it... and linguists concerned with theory can also learn something... In sum! there is something for everyone in this book.' - English World-Wide"A one-stop-shop for the study of variationist analysis." - Anne Marie Devlin! Canadian Journal of Linguistics Informationen zum Autor James A. Walker is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University in Toronto. His area of research is the quantitative analysis of sociolinguistic variation, including interests in language contact, bilingualism, ethnicity, pidgins and creoles, as well as the relationship among phonology, morphology, and syntax. Klappentext Tying together work on a number of languages and linguistic varieties in different locales, this book provides students and researchers with a convenient, unified overview of variationist analysis in linguistics. An ideal textbook for an introductory course on variation, as well as a useful resource for scholars, the volume introduces the basic concepts of variationist linguistics and includes key discussions on language change, language contact, the different types of variation, multivariate analysis with GoldVarb, and variation in sound and grammatical systems. Zusammenfassung Language Variation is a commonly taught course in the linguistics curriculum. This book offers a resource to students and researchers in the broad field of Applied Linguistics on the topic of the linguistic variation. It intends to be an introductory, unified view of variationist analysis for students coming from other areas of linguistics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: Variation and Variables. Chapter 3: Variable Rule Analysis. Chapter 4: Multivariate Analysis with GoldVarb. Chapter 5: Variation in Sound Systems. Chapter 6: Variation in Grammatical Systems. Chapter 7: Language Change. Chapter 8: Language Contact. Chapter 9: Conclusion. ...
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Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: Variation and Variables. Chapter 3: Variable Rule Analysis. Chapter 4: Multivariate Analysis with GoldVarb. Chapter 5: Variation in Sound Systems. Chapter 6: Variation in Grammatical Systems. Chapter 7: Language Change. Chapter 8: Language Contact. Chapter 9: Conclusion.
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'...the text is revelatory... refreshing and illuminating... I wish I had written this book. It is comrehensive yet concise. And it is relevant. Students and practiced variationists alike can learn something from it... and linguists concerned with theory can also learn something... In sum, there is something for everyone in this book.' - English World-Wide
"A one-stop-shop for the study of variationist analysis." - Anne Marie Devlin, Canadian Journal of Linguistics
