It is widely accepted that internal constraints on variation are not modulated by social and
stylistic factors (eg, Labov, 2010: 265). Is this also true for register differences as a special …

Most studies of genitive variation in English have considered only the choice of two variants
('s versus of), based on analysis of only tokens that are judged to be interchangeable. We …

Register variation has enjoyed plenty of attention from a text-linguistic perspective and using
the Multidimensional Approach (following Biber 1988). In variationist sociolinguistics, on the …

Recent years have seen a heightened interest in the interface between language use and
cognition in language learners. In this study, we investigate this interface further by …

During the past 20 years, corpus linguistic research on register variation has yielded
important theoretical advances. The first part of this paper discusses these advances and the …

The current study investigates the probabilistic conditioning of the Mandarin locative
alternation. We adopt a corpus-based multivariate approach to analyze 2,836 observations …

We present a corpus-based method—Variation-Based Distance and Similarity Modeling
(VADIS)—that calculates distances between registers as a function of the extent to which the …

The dative alternation, eg, he gives me two books vs. he gives two books to me, has been
extensively studied in World Englishes. However, it remains relatively underexplored in …

How does the preference for dependency length minimization (DLM) develop in early child
language? This study takes up this question with the dative alternation in English as the test …

We explore the cognitive and sociolectal constraints that probabilistically regulate the theme-
recipient (or “dative”) alternation in modern varieties of Mandarin and how these constraints …