This paper highlights a language and sign-based computational solution to the problem of
missing social metadata on Twitter (now,'X'): demographic prediction using Deep Learning …

Abstract Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Professor of Linguistics in the Quantitative Lexicology and
Variational Linguistics research group at the Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven, writes this …

This article presents the Twitter Corpus of English in Hong Kong (TCOEHK): a 123-million-
word corpus derived from sampling tweets across the 18 districts and three geographical …

Aims and objectives: What exactly happens to a mixed language's system in a multilingual
contact setting? This study aims to investigate the interactions between speakers' exposure …

The variability of adverbial placement in the modified infinitive construction (ie split infinitives
vs. full infinitives with adverbial pre-and post-modification) has been widely discussed in the …

This paper has three goals:(1) to document the factors shaping is-contraction in Mainstream
American English;(2) to assess the extent to which these factors also shape contraction of …

Different types of relativizers are used to introduce relative clauses, and the change in the
use of relativizers has attracted attention in recent decades. Despite progress in this area …

In variationist research there is little reflection on the multiple agents involved in written
textual production, whose distinct linguistic and normative representations influence the …

What happens when recognized and diverse conditioning factors of linguistic variation are
omitted from analysis and/or are not analyzed under a single analytical procedure? This …

This article presents and discusses the results from a corpus-based study on the variation
between English complement clauses with and without that in original versus translated …