..., such as war time and an economic downturn. success accommodation language learning structural alignment linguistic variation environmental fitness structural accommodation language change We ran a logistic mixed-model analysis ( Jaeger 2008 ) with Speaker and Episode as random variables, and Previous...

... of the verb get introduced into argument structures. It argues that, to a large extent, noncore arguments are introduced by seven functional heads that belong to a universal inventory of functional elements from which a particular language must select. The book further argues that cross-linguistic variation...

...The central ideas of variationist sociolinguistics are that an understanding of language requires an understanding of variable as well as categorical processes, and that the variation witnessed at all levels of language is not random. Rather, linguistic variation is characterized by orderly...

...This article compares collocations in grammaticalisation and linguistic variation. It shows how patterns of distribution and co-occurrence can be used to demonstrate the variability and gradience of constituency using examples of grammaticalisation in Spanish and English. The article examines...

...By examining linguistic variation in Aristophanic comedy, this book opens up a new perspective on intra-dialectal diversity in Classical Attic Greek. A representative range of registers, technical languages, sociolects, and (comic) idiolects is described and analyzed. Stylistic and statistical...

.... Diachronically, cross-linguistic variation increased over time because certain Romance languages have undergone a change, reversing the order of some clitic combinations (in particular, those containing a third person accusative element or the clitic en/ne). The chapter entertains the hypothesis...

... null subject parameter processing transmission AO CPH LAD LMC sensitive phase Principles and Parameters Theory functional category trigger transfer verb second agents of change reanalysis Linguistic variation restructuring of grammars parameters Universal Grammar language acquisition...

... auxiliary modal pseudogapping VP ellipsis British English do case marking polarity polarity ellipsis preverb preverb stranding sluicing Question Under Discussion ellipsis structure recoverability licensing ellipsis as a diagnostic elliptical constructions cross-linguistic variation...

... in Eastern Africa in 1968–1971. Ultimately, this chapter examines how a language can function as either a native, second, or foreign language. It also studies the linguistic variation due to differences regarding social prestige or status, gender, age, occupation, etc. as well as the enduring...

... of another. The most concrete proposal of this kind so far is Blake's case hierarchy. Another general aspect of case systems which is subject to cross-linguistic variation is the relation between morphological versus syntactic case. ‘Morphological case’ (m-case) refers to an (inflectional) case form...

... of the predicative constructions in T5 Fig. 5.4. Distribution of the 3pl suffix pronouns in the corpus Fig. 5.5. Frequency of occurrence of the adjectival part-of-speech Fig. 5.6. Two-dimensional representation of the register variation in Amennakhte’s corpus This chapter investigates linguistic variation...

... corrections Gaskell Elizabeth 1810–1865 Hutchinson Sara 1775–1835 Tilson Frances 1777–1823 grammar conservative/innovative usage linguistic appropriateness language awareness normative grammar dialect linguistic change linguistic variation hypercorrection Jane Austen’s writings are frequently...

... Projet Louisiane Swanton John Reed Biloxi Chitimacha Confederation of Muskogees Chitimacha Choctaw Mobilian Jargon schools and schooling Tulane University Cheramie Roland Chêne à Caouenne Louisiana French Indigenous people language Ethnic-based linguistic variation Language ethnicity...

... information structure questions newness contrastive stress exhaustivity eye tracking truth value judgement priming implicature presupposition scalar adjectives prosody intonation information-structural focus cross-linguistic variation context production perception and interpretation...

... expression Mandarin epistemology manifesto passim expertise true truth epistemic vs non epistemic evaluative justification normative normativity Analects Confucius think thinking thought definition reliability knowledge-how intellectualism cross-linguistic variation Taiwanese Jason Stanley...

... affixation brain imaging Friulian Italian unimpaired population Bialystok E Hakuta K Hyltenstam K Tees R C Werker J F lexical processing modalities on line processing compound words bilingual lexicon cross linguistic variation At the age of five, the French–English bilingual niece of one...