Variationist sociolinguistics and corpus-based variationist linguistics: overlap and cross-pollination potential

Title: Variationist Sociolinguistics -syntax

The variationist sociolinguistics model assumes that the human language faculty accommodates and generates language variation, and that the workings of grammar may have a quantitative and non-categorical component. By means of the linguistic variable, one describes and analyzes orderly heterogeneity in language use. The linguistic variable as a structural unit depends on the model of syntax one...

Verbal -s in Vernacular Newfoundland English: A Combined Variationist and Formal Account of Grammatical Change

While most studies of generalised verbal –s report the effects of the Northern Subject Rule (subject type and adjacency between the subject and the verb condition verbal –s), work on this feature in Vernacular Newfoundland English (VNE) report a lack of NSR effects. Instead, verbal –s in VNE is associated with habitual aspect and verb stativity. This paper integrates generative and variationist...

Exploring Syntactic Features for Native Language Identification: A Variationist Perspective on Feature Encoding and Ensemble Optimization

In this paper, we systematically explore lexicalized and non-lexicalized local syntactic features for the task of Native Language Identification (NLI). We investigate different types of feature representations in singleand cross-corpus settings, including two representations inspired by a variationist perspective on the choices made in the linguistic system. To combine the different models, we ...

Lexicography and Corpus Linguistics

Corpus linguistics and language acquisition