Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the ‘life cycle’ of linguistic variability in English using data sources that r

Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the 'life cycle' of linguistic variability in English using data sources that range

Recent work in applied linguistics has expanded our understanding of the rule governed nature of language. The concept of an idealized speaker -hearer whose lin

This volume explores how the patterning of surface variation can shed light on the grammatical representation of variable phenomena. The authors explore variati

This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of