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Variation within the English language is a vast research area, of which dialectology, the study of geographic variation, is a significant part. This book explores grammatical differences between British English dialects, drawing on authentic speech data collected in over thirty counties. In doing so it presents a new approach known as 'corpus-based dialectometry', which focuses on the joint quantitative measurement of dozens of grammatical features to gauge regional differences. These features include, for example, multiple negation (e.g. don't you make no damn mistake), non-standard verbal-s (e.g. so I says, What have you to do?), or non-standard weak past tense and past participle forms (e.g. they knowed all about these things). Utilizing state-of-the-art dialectometrical analysis and visualization techniques, the book is original both in terms of its fundamental research question ('What are the large-scale patterns of grammatical variability in British English dialects?') and in ter

In this qualitative as well as quantitative study, Szmrecsanyi argues that those of us who use language are inertial, to the point that analysts can predict with some certainty exactly what we are goi

Linguists in diatectology, register analysis, typology, and quantitative linguistics cross their sub-disciplinary boundaries in the study of linguistic variation, demonstrating their common research g

Linguists in different specialties discuss complexity in the three major contact-related fields of creolistics, indigenization, and nativization. The topics include accounting for analyticity in creol

The 27 studies were originally presented at a fall 2009 conference series in Freiburg, Germany, which was called to integrate three aspects of language and space that have been well-researched separat