Describing and Modeling Variation in Grammar (Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs) by - pdf epub fb2

The aim of the volume is to bridge the 'cultural gap' between sociolinguistics and theoretical linguistics in the study of variation. The various contributions seek to combine corpus-based and competence-based approaches. They document the plurality of current research into models of grammatical competence that live up to the challenge of variationist data.