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 discussion note reviews responses of the linguistics profession to the grave issues of
language endangerment identified a quarter of a century ago in the journal Language by …

This chapter surveys phonological variation in English from a wide range of perspectives. I
draw on the methods and findings of several academic traditions, especially phonetics …

We must not rely only on our 'scientific'definitions, such as mutual intelligibility and shared
literary norms, in deciding what should be recognised as a language. This is fundamentally …

This book proposes a corpus-driven approach to language contact based on the study of
endangered languages. Drawing on variationist and language contact frameworks, it …

Over the past 50 years, variationist sociolinguists have taken the influential ideas and
pioneering methods of Labov () to many locations around the world. But the majority of …

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 …

Korean has a typologically unusual three-way laryngeal contrast in voiceless stops among
aspirated, lenis, and fortis stops. Seoul Korean is undergoing a female-led sound change in …

Sui clan exogamy can serve as a laboratory for investigation of dialect contact and
immigration. The Sui people, an indigenous minority of southwest China, have marriage …

Indonesia is home to over 700 languages. That amounts to around 10% of
theworld'slanguages. Itisonlyitseasternneighbor, PapuaNewGuinea, that …