Comparative Variation Analysis - Grammatical Alternations in World Englishes

"Taking an interdisciplinary stance, this pioneering book shows what we can learn about the grammatical choices that people make based on both observational and experimental data. It conducts detailed state-of-the-art analyses, and discusses the findings within the context of current theoretical models of grammatical variation in World Englishes"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Grammatical and syntactic variation; 3. World Englishes and dialect typology; 4. The data; 5. Alternation-by-alternation analysis; 6. Distances, similarities, and coherence; 7. Experimental corroboration; 8. Where are we now, and where to next?.

About the author

Benedikt Szmrecsanyi is Professor of Linguistics at KU Leuven (Belgium). His research interests include language variation and its interfaces with typology, geolinguistics, complexity theory, and psycholinguistics.Jason Grafmiller is Assistant Professor of Corpus-based Sociolinguistics at the University of Birmingham (UK). His research involves the application of various quantitative techniques to examine the forces shaping how language varies across regions, styles, and time.

Product details

• Authors: Jason Grafmiller, Benedikt (Ku Leuven Szmrecsanyi, Szmrecsanyi Benedikt
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9781108798471
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79847-1
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Studies in Language Variation and Change
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Sociolinguistics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Computational Linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Computational and corpus linguistics