Acquisition is an intuitive place to look for explanation in language change. Each child must
learn their individual grammar (s) via the indirect process of analyzing the output of others' …

Language change is neutral if the probability of a language learner adopting any given
linguistic variant only depends on the frequency of that variant in the learner's environment …

This thesis explores the proposed causal link between child language development and
language change from the language acquisition perspective. While theorists have argued …

This dissertation advances our understanding of the historical evolution and grammatical
structure of English do-support through the application of novel historical data to this …

This thesis examines the mechanisms of linguistic change involved in the actuation and
subsequent development of pragmatic markers (PMs). Using the variationist method, I test …

This study describes a change in which relative clause extraposition is in the process of
being lost in English, Icelandic, French, and Portuguese. This current change in progress …

This paper reports a rapid and anonymous study of apparent‐time change in Toronto among
the use of expressions such as you're welcome and no problem as responses to thanks …

The conventional methodology of variationist linguistics foregrounds the variable as the
object of study: each variant is situated in the envelope of variation against the other variants …

We explore the linguistic variant–as opposed to the variable–as the object of sociolinguistic
perception. The sociolinguistic principle of accountability, in centering the variable as a …

The be like quotative emerged rapidly around the English-speaking world and has quickly
saturated the quotative systems of young speakers in multiple countries. We study be like …