A Variationist Approach to Cross-register Language Variation and Change
The comparative method of variationist sociolinguistics has demonstrated that frequency changes are not reliable determinants of whether grammatical change is taking place. Frequency changes can be the result of extra-linguistic register changes, changes within the underlying grammar, or a combinati...
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| Language: | en_ca |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/43604 |