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Comparative Variation Analysis

Grammatical Alternations in World Englishes

By: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi,Jason Grafmiller

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Comparative Variation Analysis

Grammatical Alternations in World Englishes

By: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi,Jason Grafmiller

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 linguistic, 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 sociolinguistic, corpus linguistics, and World Englishes.

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1108491561

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Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects

A Study in Corpus-Based Dialectometry

By: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

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Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects

A Study in Corpus-Based Dialectometry

By: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

An exploration of grammatical differences between British English dialects, drawing on authentic speech data collected in over thirty counties. The book presents a new approach known as 'corpus-based dialectometry', which focuses on the joint quantitative measurement of dozens of grammatical features to gauge regional differences.

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1107003458

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Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English

A Corpus Study at the Intersection of Variationist Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Discourse Analysis

By: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

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Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English

A Corpus Study at the Intersection of Variationist Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Discourse Analysis

By: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

Language users are creatures of habit with a tendency to re-use morphosyntactic material that they have produced or heard before. In other words, linguistic patterns and tokens, once used, persist in discourse. The present book is the first large-scale corpus analysis to explore the determinants of this persistence, drawing on regression analyses of a variety of functional, discourse-functional, cognitive, psycholinguistic, and external factors. The case studies investigated include the alternation between synthetic and analytic comparatives, between the s-genitive and the of-genitive, between gerundial and infinitival complementation, particle placement, and future marker choice in a number of corpora sampling different spoken registers and geographical varieties of English. Providing a probabilistic framework for examining the ways in which persistence - among several other internal and external factors - influences speakers' linguistic choices, the book departs from most writings in the field in that it seeks to bridge several research traditions. While it is concerned, in a classically variationist spirit, with internal and external determinants of grammatical variation in English, it also draws heavily on ideas and evidence developed by psycholinguists and discourse analysts. In seeking to construct a comprehensive model of how speakers make linguistic choices, the study ultimately contributes to a theory of how spoken language works. The book is of interest to graduate students and researchers in variationist sociolinguistics, probabilistic linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics.

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Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English

A Corpus Study at the Intersection of Variationist Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Discourse Analysis

By: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

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Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English

A Corpus Study at the Intersection of Variationist Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Discourse Analysis

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Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects

A Study in Corpus-Based Dialectometry

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Comparative Variation Analysis

Comparative Variation Analysis

Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects

Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects

Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English

Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English

Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English

Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English

Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects

Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects

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