This volume aims to overcome sub-disciplinary boundaries in the study of linguistic variation - be it language-internal
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The study of variation and change is at the heart of the sociolinguistics. Providing a wide survey of the field, this te
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In what ways can dialectologists and language typologists profit from each others' work when looking across the fen
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While other books focus on special internet registers, like tweets or texting, no previous study describes the full rang
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The volume explores the relationship between linguistic universals and language variation. Its contributions identify th
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Dialectology proper has traditionally focused on the geographic distribution of language variation as an end in itself a
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Register Variation in Indian English constitutes the first large-scale empirical investigation of an international varie
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A study of the syntax and semantics of quantifiers in English.
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In this volume scholars honor M. Rita Manzini for her contributions to the field of Generative Morphosyntax. The essays
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