The paper surveys overlap between corpus linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics.
Corpus linguistics is customarily defined as a methodology that bases claims about …

Distributional semantics embodies the idea that the context in which a word occurs reveals
the meaning of that word. In contemporary corpus linguistics, that idea takes shape in …

CHOSEN BY THE ECONOMIST AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An American linguist
teaching in England explores the sibling rivalry between British and American English …

This paper presents evidence from both corpora and agent-based simulation for the effect of
lectal contamination. By doing so, it shows how agent-based simulation can be used as a …

Philippine English is one of the few postcolonial varieties of English mainly influenced by
American (and not British) English from its inception. Previous research on recent diachronic …

I present a study of variation, change, and social meaning of Anglo-Cornish dialect lexis.
This study is informed by a year-long ethnographic participant-observation in the Cornish …

This study investigates overall grammatical developments of written Australian English
(AusE) across the twentieth century. Adopting an aggregate approach to language variation …

The chapter explores phonological variations exhibited by Bengali adults living in Dhaka
(the capital of Bangladesh) in their attempt to use the Bangla language efficiently. A …

This paper argues that a lectometric approach may shed light on the distinction between
destandardization and demotization, a pair of concepts that plays a key role in ongoing …

Mit der Verfügbarkeit immer größerer und vielfältigerer Korpora wird im Übergang zum 21.
Jahrhundert in der Lexikonforschung ein neues Kapitel aufgeschlagen. Der …