35.90, Books: Comparative Variation Analysis: Szmrecsanyi and Grafmiller (2023)

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Date: 08-Dec-2023
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Comparative Variation Analysis: Szmrecsanyi and Grafmiller (2023)


Title: Comparative Variation Analysis
Subtitle: Grammatical Alternations in World Englishes
Series Title: Studies in Language Variation and Change
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://cambridge.org/9781108491563

author: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
author: Jason Grafmiller
Abstract:

Variation studies is an increasingly popular area in linguistics,
becoming embedded in curriculum design, conferences, and research.
However, the field is at risk of fragmenting into different research
communities with different foci. This pioneering book addresses this
by establishing a canon of state-of-the-art quantitative methods to
analyze grammatical variation from a comparative perspective. It
explains how to use these methods to investigate large datasets in a
responsible fashion, providing a blueprint for applying techniques
from corpus linguistics, variationist, and dialectometric traditions
in novel ways. It specifically explores the scope and limits of
syntactic variability in a global language such as English, and
investigates three grammatical alternations in nine varieties of
English, exploring what we can learn about the grammatical choices
that people make based on both observational and experimental data.
Comprehensive yet accessible, it will be of interest to academic
researchers and students of sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and
World Englishes.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng)



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