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(Socio)Linguistic Effects across Political Borders

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Long neglected as "unimportant" variation, political borders that cut across older dialect zones reveal interesting linguistic and sociolinguistic features that are very "real" for speakers

Variation in English World-Wide

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Corpus-based studies on morphosyntactic variation in Englishes

  • Website: http://view0.webs.uvigo.es/
  • Expires after: 01-01-2525
  • Keywords: World Englishes,Variationist Linguistics,Sociolinguistics,Registers,Corpus Linguistics

Morpho-syntactic variation and change

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Integrating syntactic theory into variationist analysis of morpho-syntactic phenomena to understand the underlying structure of variation and the processes of change

  • Expires after: 01-01-2200
  • Keywords: Syntax,Variation,Language Change

Discourse-pragmatic variation and change

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Variation and change in the use of discourse-pragmatic features such as question tags; discourse pragmatic effects in relation to syntactic phenomena

  • Expires after: 01-01-2200
  • Keywords: Discourse-pragmatic,Variation,Language Change

Quantitative variationist analysis

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Quantitative analysis including mixed-effects modelling in R

  • Expires after: 01-01-2200
  • Keywords: Quantitative Methods,Mixed-Effects Modelling

Analysis of lexical complexity measures in academic and non-academic discourses

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Analysis of different sets of lexical complexity measures including lexical density, lexical diversity/variation, lexical sophistication and lexical richness measures, methods of analysis, statistics

  • Website: www.researchgate.net/profile/Maryam_Nasseri
  • Expires after: 01-01-2080
  • Keywords: Lexical Complexity,Lexical Complexity Measures,Complexity,Lexical Density,Lexical Diversity,Lexical Variation,Lexical Sophistication,Lexical Richness,Linguistic Complexity,Corpus Linguistics,Academic Writing,First And Second Language Acquisition,Lexicology,Statistical Methods Of Lexical Analysis

Variation and Change in English

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Grammatical and phonological variation in past and present varieties of English; functional conditioning; based on linguistic corpora and text databases; with a focus on quantitative methodologies.

  • Expires after: 31-12-2030
  • Keywords: Alternations,Constraints On Variation,Corpus Linguistics,Diachronic Variation,Historical Linguistics,Language Change,Phonology,Quantitative Methods,Variationist Linguistics,World Englishes,Grammar

Language variation in a multilingual-multicultural space

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This is my PhD project at ANU. Find more:

Variation studies

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I am interested in the interface between variation studies (synchronic and diabronic) and typology, geolinguistics, and psycholinguistics

  • Expires after: 01-01-2030
  • Keywords: Synchronic Linguistics,Diachronic Linguistics,Variationist Linguistics

Geolinguistics

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How can we describe language variation as a function of geographic space?

  • Expires after: 01-01-2030
  • Keywords: Dialectology,Dialectometry,Typology,Dialect Typology

English verb-particle combinations

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Diachronic evolution of English verb-particle combinations

  • Expires after: 07-09-2029
  • Keywords: Phrasal Verb,Particle Verb,Diachronic Variation,Quantitative Methods

The BE-passive in Gibraltar English

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The study of the BE-passive in Gibraltar English, with a focus on grammatical variation, socio-cultural pragmatics and language contact.

  • Website: view0.webs.uvigo.es/team/marina-perez
  • Expires after: 31-05-2029
  • Keywords: Corpus Linguistics,Dialectology,Grammatical Variation,Language Contact,Language Identity,Pragmatics,Sociolinguistics,Synchronic Linguistics,Syntax,World Englishes

Register variation in the history of English

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Study of lexico-grammatical features of texts in different registers

  • Expires after: 30-04-2029
  • Keywords: Register Variation,History Of English

English historical syntax, in relation to Information Structure and Discourse.

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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ans-Van-Kemenade

Relativization strategies in Gibraltar English

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My research focuses on the non-categorical variation of relative clauses in Gibraltar English.

Letter writing in Late Modern English

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Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers. A window onto eighteenth-century life, literature and language

  • Website: https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/about/
  • Expires after: 31-12-2027
  • Keywords: Grammar Writing,Historical Sociolinguistics,Language Attitudes,Diachronic Variation,Prescriptivism,Standardization,Variationist Linguistics,Corpus Linguistics,Historical Correspondence,Pragmatics,Social Network Analysis,Socio-historical Linguistics

Aboriginal English in the Pilbara

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My PhD explores Aboriginal English as spoken in the Pilbara, where I examine the language repertoires of Indigenous communities using a participatory approach.

  • Expires after: 31-12-2027
  • Keywords: Sociolinguistics,Variationist Linguistics,Variation,Discourse Analysis,Discourse-pragmatic,Language Contact,Language Identity,Lexical Diversity,Styles,World Englishes

Guyanese Creolese, Guyanese English and Education

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I am interested in the interaction of English and Creolese in Guyana, the boundaries between them, and the variation in English and creoles across the Caribbean.

  • Expires after: 01-12-2027
  • Keywords: Applied Linguistics,Diachronic Variation,Sociolinguistics,Variationist Linguistics,World Englishes,Pidgins And Creoles,Caribbean Englishes

Collective-Verb Agreement in British English - Agree in Diatopy

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Research on the evolution of verbal agreement with collective nouns in British English in recent diachrony.

Purrieties of Language

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language variation in cat-related digital spaces

English in Late Modern times

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The aim is to take into consideration LModE usage in a range of previously unedited texts, especially as far as popular culture is concerned.

  • Expires after: 31-12-2026
  • Keywords: Historical Pragmatics,Historical Sociolinguistics,Geographical Variation,Early Business Discourse,Early Multimodality,Popular Culture,Entertainment

The probabilistic grammar of rap

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As part of my PhD project, I am investigating grammatical variation in rap lyrics. I am conducting four case studies, e.g. on FTR, to identify variables driving grammatical alternation in rap songs.

  • Expires after: 30-09-2026
  • Keywords: Probabilistic Linguistics,Grammatical Variation,Rap

Recent change

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Explaining a recent use of so in spoken British English, namely as a discourse marker conveying acceptance of an invitation to take the floor and give an explanation.

Geospatial Linguistics

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Modelling language variation and change in local populations using geo-referenced social media language data

  • Expires after: 01-10-2025
  • Keywords: Geographical Variation,Language Change,Variationist Linguistics,Sociolinguistics,Online Language

Creole and English in a British Overseas Territory Language Variations and Language Attitudes in 21st Century Anguilla

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One’s aim is to perform an in-depth sociolinguistic analysis of Anguillians' use of and attitudes towards their native language as well as their outlook on other varieties of English.

  • Website: www.hpsl-linguistics.org/user/784/
  • Expires after: 30-04-2025
  • Keywords: Caribbean Englishes,Corpus Linguistics,Sociolinguistics,Dialectology,World Englishes,Dialect Typology

Variation in English on the internet and its implications: an empirical study of web registers in South Asian countries

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Study of language variation in South Asian online Englishes

  • Expires after: 28-02-2025
  • Keywords: Corpus Linguistics,Registers,Quantitative Methods,World Englishes,Variation,Sociolinguistics,Textual Variation,Variationist Linguistics,Multidimensional Analysis,Computer-mediate Communication,South Asian Englishes,Pakistani English,Indian English,Sri Lankan English,Bangladeshi English,R,Python

The censorship of swearwords in standard English

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I am interested in analyzing the use of curse words across sociolinguistic variations, and the motives for their censorship despite being frequently heard in oral and written standard speech.

  • Expires after: 01-04-2024
  • Keywords: Swear Words,Prescriptivism,Cognitive Sociolinguistics,Sociolinguistics,Lexicology

Phonological acquisition of variable input: bilingual children in multi-dialectal environments

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My PhD project looks at variation in child-directed speech and its impact on phonological acquisition in bilingual children.

  • Expires after: 01-10-2021
  • Keywords: Phonetics,Language Acquisition,Sociolinguistics,World Englishes,Bilingualism,Variationist Linguistics

Acquisition, Variation, and Diachronic Change in and across English Amplifiier Systems

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This research project focuses on the amplification of adjectives in English (e.g. very good, really nice) using a corpus-based quantitative approach.

  • Expires after: 30-09-2021
  • Keywords: Variation,Corpus Linguistics,Language Change,Quantitative Methods

Constraints on syntactic variation: noun phrases in early Germanic languages

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The project (2017-2020) focuses on noun phrase word order in Old English, Old Norse (Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian), Old Swedish, Old High German, Old Saxon, and Gothic.

Syntactic Variation in Cape Flats English

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A sociolinguistic approach towards (morpho-)syntactic variation in CFE.

  • Expires after: 01-04-2020
  • Keywords: Comparative Sociolinguistics,Sociolinguistics,Statistical Methods Of Syntactic Analysis,World Englishes,Variationist Linguistics,Syntax,Cape Flats English,South African English

Constructional variation

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Usage-based approach to constructional variation across lects and registers

  • Expires after: 01-01-2020
  • Keywords: Construction Grammar,Corpus Linguistics,Cognitive Sociolinguistics

Abusive Language Online and Trolling

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An examination of the stylistic variation in abusive language online and internet trolling using a novel form of multi-dimensional analysis for short texts.

  • Expires after: 30-09-2019
  • Keywords: Corpus Linguistics,Variation,Multidimensional Analysis

Variation and change in derivational vs. inflectional productivity

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Similar variation and change occur in both derivational and inflectional productivity, supporting the hypothesis of a cline between D & I; hence measures of syntheticity should include derivation.

The English dative alternation

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My research focuses on regional variation in the probabilistic constraints that shape variation between the ditransitive and the prepositional dative across nine national varieties of English.

  • Expires after: 02-06-2018
  • Keywords: Constraints On Variation,Synchronic Linguistics,Variation,Dialectology

Genitive Alternation Across Varieties of English

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This study explores the underlying constraints that shape syntactic variation in new varieties of English.