It is widely accepted that internal constraints on variation are not modulated by social and
stylistic factors (eg, Labov, 2010: 265). Is this also true for register differences as a special …

In this paper, we operationalize register differences at the intersection of formality and mode,
and distinguish four broad register categories: spoken informal (conversations), spoken …

My dissertation focuses on the alternation between syndetic and asyndetic finite
complement clauses in Spanish. Syndetic complements, introduced by an explicit …

Register variation has enjoyed plenty of attention from a text-linguistic perspective and using
the Multidimensional Approach (following Biber 1988). In variationist sociolinguistics, on the …

During the past 20 years, corpus linguistic research on register variation has yielded
important theoretical advances. The first part of this paper discusses these advances and the …

This paper presents a quantitative corpus analysis of three syntactically mobile contrast
markers in different registers of French: contrastive adverbs, emphatic pronouns, and …

Many linguists call cross-situational variation within a speaker's grammar register (see
Section 1.2 for details). Under this definition, any theory of register has to incorporate a …

This paper is about two competing marking strategies for contrastive topics in a topic shift
context in French: emphatic pronouns and contrastive adverbs. We analyse the choice …

Ik herinner me een broeierige, wat kleffe namiddag in de zomer van 2017. Beschut in de
betonnen koelte van het Leuvense Erasmushuis zat ik als jonge, pas afgestudeerde snaak …

In this paper, we propose a theory of register variation in probabilistic grammar. We assume
register (situational-functional intra-individual variation in lexicon and grammar) to be a …