The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus Evidence on English Past and Present 
Author: Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen, Paivi Pahta, Minna Korhonen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Publication date: 2008-12-30
ISBN: 9027234825
Number of pages: 339
Format / Quality: rar -> pdf
Size: 2,7 MB

Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the ‘life cycle’ of linguistic variability in English using data sources that range from electronic corpora to the internet. In the spirit of the 1968 Weinreich, Labov and Herzog classic, the fifteen contributions divide into three sections, each highlighting different stages in the dynamics of English