Does the use of two languages by bilinguals inevitably bring about grammatical change?
Does switching between languages serve as a catalyst in such change? It is widely held that …

This third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff's highly successful textbook provides a solid, up-to-
date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and covers foundation issues …

Corpus-based studies have become increasingly common in linguistic typology over recent
years, amounting to the emergence of a new field that we call corpus-based typology. The …

This textbook introduces the fundamental concepts and methods of corpus linguistics for
students approaching this topic for the first time, putting specific emphasis on the enormous …

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art
of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established …

In this paper, we present corpus data that questions the concept of native speaker
homogeneity as it is presumed in many studies using native speakers (L1) as a control …

This variationist study of subject pronoun expression (SPE) in Medellín, Colombia uses
multivariate regressions to probe the effects of ten predictors on 4623 tokens from the …

This paper brings together typological and sociolinguistic approaches to language variation.
Its main aim is to evaluate the relative effect of language internal and external factors on the …

This study examines the extent to which the Basque ergative-k marker is undergoing change
in the Basque Autonomous Community. The inclusion of Standard Basque in the education …

Are semantic classes of verbs genuine or do they merely mask idiosyncrasies of frequent
verbs? Here, we examine the interplay between semantic classes and frequent verb-form …