Corpus-based studies have become increasingly common in linguistic typology over recent
years, amounting to the emergence of a new field that we call corpus-based typology. The …

This article describes how deaf signers of Auslan (a deaf signed language of Australia)
coordinate fully conventionalised forms (such as lexical manual signs and English …

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 …

While the grammaticalization of person agreement is a widely-cited and apparently
uncontroversial topos of grammaticalization theory, the striking differences in the outcome of …

Abstract With 20,000 speakers across Northern Australia, Australian Kriol is well known to
exhibit geographic variation but this has never been systematically studied. This article …

We examine constructed dialogue in a longitudinal corpus of Australian Aboriginal English
(AE) spoken in Perth, Australia. We conduct a variationist analysis of naturalistic data from …

The choice between a pronoun and zero anaphor for the expression of third-person subjects
is examined in a corpus of Vera'a (Oceanic). While predominantly expressed by a pronoun …

Mandarin has a low rate of overtly expressed arguments in all syntactic functions without
agreement marking on the verb. It has been claimed that Mandarin exhibits higher rates of …

There is a long tradition in linguistics of seeing each language as a powerful factor setting
out predetermining grooves in how people express themselves. But how strong is this …

Jakarta Indonesian is a colloquial variety of Indonesian spoken primarily in Indonesia's
capital, where it was originally a contact variety between Betawi, the local variety of Malay …