We sketch a project that marries probabilistic grammar research to scholarship on World
Englishes, thus synthesizing two previously rather disjoint lines of research into one unifying …

What are the scope and limits of syntactic variation within and across varieties of English?
To address this question, we investigate well-known syntactic variation between the s …

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

Whereas the alternation between the s-genitive (the New Year's message) and the of-
genitive (the message of the New Year) is well documented, our study offers a more …

The study of grammatical variation in language mixing has been at the core of research into
bilingual language practices. Although various motivations have been proposed in the …

The present study seeks to contribute to two sparsely examined areas of World Englishes
research by (i) quantitatively evaluating two potential linguistic epicenters in Asia (Indian …

This special collection brings together research exploring and evaluating probabilistic
variation patterns from a comparative perspective, thus highlighting current work situated at …

This article describes how students can be introduced to the basics of linguistic analysis
using personal, product, and place names as data. I outline several areas of linguistics that …

Tagalog adjectives and nouns variably occur in two word orders, separated by an
intermediary linker: adjective-linker-noun versus noun-linker-adjective. The linker has two …

Previous research has tracked the history of the theme-recipient alternation (or:“dative”
alternation) in Chinese, but few studies have embedded their analysis in a probabilistic …