Outliers, impact, and rationalization in linguistic change

SA Tagliamonte, A D'Arcy, CR Louro - Language, 2016 - JSTOR
Quotative be like is a rapid global innovation, yet no evidence pinpoints when it arose, under
what circumstances, or the consequences of its emergence. Using a data set spanning four …

Lexical and morphosyntactic variation in australian english

L Murray, H Manns - Australian English Reimagined, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Australian English has only recently entered the Differentiation phase of the Dynamic Model
(Peters, 2014), and this phase often leads to more observable social and regional variation …