This textbook introduces the fundamental concepts and methods of corpus linguistics for
students approaching this topic for the first time, putting specific emphasis on the enormous …

The article uses the Q‐learning algorithm to investigate the development of ecological
language of college students in some cities, and analyzes the results of the investigation …

This chapter investigates lectal coherence within a Central Bavarian dialect-standard region
of Austria through a real-time panel study. To date, only a few empirical studies have dealt …

This paper presents a topic modeling approach to corpus-based dialectometry. Topic
models are most often used in text mining to find latent structure in a collection of …

Abstract Numeral classifiers in Yucatec Maya are subject to two processes of language
change that create variation in the contemporary language. The first process is the use of a …

Many linguists call cross-situational variation within a speaker's grammar register (see
Section 1.2 for details). Under this definition, any theory of register has to incorporate a …

Spatial variation of language has been researched qualitatively and quantitatively for at
least 150 years by different sub-disciplines of linguistics, each defining differently what …

This article reflects on the status of corpus‐linguistic methodologies in English linguistics,
and on the role of English linguistics in the development of corpus linguistics: what does …

To fix terminology at the outset, we define a corpus as “a collection of texts or parts of texts
upon which some general linguistic analysis can be conducted”(Meyer 2002: xi). Corpus …

The study was motivated by the factual condition of methodological and theoretical
deficiencies promoting the mapping and classification studies of Sudanese Dialect. The …