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\"Tying together work on a number of languages and linguistic varieties in different locales, this book provides students and researchers with a convenient, unified overview of variationist analysis in linguistics. Variation in Linguistic Systems takes a theoretical and quantitative approach to the study of variation in language, focusing on the role of language-internal constraints on variation and the relation of linguistic variation to linguistic theory. It introduces the basic concepts of variationist linguistics and includes key discussions on language change, language contact, the different types of variation, multivariate analysis with GoldVarb, and variation in sound and grammatical systems Linguistic Corpora And Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Variation And Variables -- The Analysis Of Linguistic Variation -- Multivariate Analysis With Goldvarb -- Variation In Sound Systems -- Variation In Grammatical Systems -- Language Change -- Language Contact -- Conclusion. James A. Walker. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Author

Walker, James A., James A. Walker

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Oxon and New York.

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781136988929

Subjects

Language Learning, Linguistics, Literary Fiction