Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics.

Nowadays, linguists do not question the existence of synchronic variation, and the dichotomy between synchrony and diachrony. They recognize that synchrony can be motivated regionally (diatopic variation), sociolinguistically (diastratic variation), or stylistically (diaphasic variation). But, furth...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Kawaguchi, Yuji
Other Authors:	Minegishi, Makoto, Viereck, Wolfgang
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011.
Series:	Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Subjects:	Corpora (Linguistics) Language and languages > Variation. Historical linguistics.