<div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues,<div><br></div><div>I received some feedback to my query on studying variation in minority languages from several people, which I share with those who are interested, as a google-doc here, where you may also leave your comments: </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17wWWB5W5nIkLRVzVH7QQAVAmaPnybZCxXZE2aU9LWJw/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/17wWWB5W5nIkLRVzVH7QQAVAmaPnybZCxXZE2aU9LWJw/edit?usp=sharing</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I tried splitting the references into two topics - variation in grammar and sociophonetic variation, according to my original query - but this was not always possible. According to the query, I focused on references to the studies on minority languages; but, again, this is not always possible, because collected volumes may include studies of different types. </div><div><br></div><div>I thank Grev Corbett, <span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Jorge Rosés Labrada,</span>

Felicity Meakens, Sergei Say, Dineke Shokkin</div><div><br></div><div>In case anyone cannot access the google doc, I provide the references below:</div><div><br></div><div>**************************************************************</div><div><br></div><div>

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<b style="" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-c24e721d-0d33-f5fa-9bf0-6aa54dbb980a"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sociolinguistics of minority languages: Variation in grammar</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Greville G. Corbett. (1999). Resolution rules for gender agreement in Tsakhur. In: Rakhilina and Testelets (eds.) Typology and linguistic explanation. Moscow 1999. (*Summary of judgements from ten speakers, no statistics)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Meakins, Felicity. (2009). The case of the shifty ergative marker: A pragmatic shift in the ergative marker in one Australian mixed language. In J. Barddal & S. Chelliah (Eds.), </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Role of Semantics and Pragmatics in the Development of Case.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (pp. 59-91). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Meakins, Felicity. (2015). Not obligatory: Bound pronoun variation in Gurindji and Bilinarra. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 1</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(2), 128-161.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Meakins, Felicity & O'Shannessy, C. (2010). Ordering arguments about: Word order and discourse motivations in the development and use of the ergative marker in two Australian mixed languages. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lingua, 120</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(7), 1693–1713.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Meyerhoff, Miriam. 2015. Turning variation on its head: Analysing subject prefixes in Nkep (Vanuatu) for language documentation</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Asia-Pacific Language Variation </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1(1): 78-108.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Овсянникова, М.А., Ханина, О.В. Что происходит с языком, когда на нем перестают говорить? (данные нефинитных форм лесного диалекта энецкого языка). (*Language loss as reflected in the change of the use of non-finite verb forms in Enets, Samoyedic; to be published, if interested, contact the author: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(119,119,119);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:masha.ovsjannikova@gmail.com">masha.ovsjannikova@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sociophonetics of minority languages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(69,69,69);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kristine A. Hildebrandt, Carmen Jany & Wilson Silva (eds.). 2017. Documenting variation in endangered languages. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(69,69,69);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Special Publication 13 Language Documentation & Conservation.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(69,69,69);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (*A special issue of Language documentation and Conservation; freely available here: </span><a href="https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/24754?mode=full" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/24754?mode=full</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(69,69,69);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">covers various topics; from a quick look at the ToC, there is a special focus on sociovariation in language loss) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Meyerhoff, Miriam. 2017. Writing a linguistic symphony: Analyzing variation while doing language documentation. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue Canadienne De Linguistique</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: 1-25. doi:10.1017/cnj.2017. (*the paper analyses three different types of variables, to quote: “</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(89,89,89);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the near merger of two front vowels, lexical borrowing, and the expression of subject agreement”)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mansfield, John. 2015. Consonant lenition as a sociophonetic variable in Murrinh Patha (Australia).  </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Language Variation and Change</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  27: 203-225</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mansfield, John. 2015. Morphotactic variation, prosodic domains and the changing structure of the Murrinhpatha verb.  </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Asia-Pacific Language Variation </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1(2): 163-189</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stanford, James N. 2008. A sociotonetic analysis of Sui dialect contact</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Language Variation and Change </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">20(3): 409-50.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stanford, James N. & Dennis Preston. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (*This is a collected volume covering both sociophonetic and grammatical variation in minority languages)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dineke Shokkin also notes, that within this project - </span><a href="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/the-wellsprings-of-linguistic-diversity/-" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/the-wellsprings-of-linguistic-diversity/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">they are currently doing research on language variation in languages of Australia, PNG and Vanuatu - publications to follow.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Different references to publications by Naomy Dagy are available at her personal page: </span><a href="http://individual.utoronto.ca/ngn/cv.htm#pubs" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://individual.utoronto.ca/ngn/cv.htm#pubs</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Note however that most of these are on variation in heritage languages, in urban environment.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A book on various aspects of variation in Gaelic at Embo, a village in Sutherland, is </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dorian, Nancy. 2010. Investigating variation. The effects of social organization and social setting. Oxfrod: Oxford University Press.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - but this already borders with studies of local varieties of bigger languages.</span></p></b><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">

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