The present survey reviews previous work on current change in English syntax. Focusing on
British and American Standard English, and on contrasts between the written and the …

Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive,
intermediate level examination of Language Variation and Change, the branch of …

Grammaticalization refers to the change whereby lexical terms and constructions serve
grammatical functions in certain linguistic contexts and, once grammaticalized, continue to …

Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book
shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected …

This chapter demonstrates comparative sociolinguistic methodology using case studies from
two research programs. The first involves tracking the origins of African American Vernacular …

What is the mechanism by which a linguistic change advances across successive
generations of speakers? We explore this question by using the model of incrementation …

We use the variationist method to elucidate the expression of future time in English,
examining multiple grammaticalization in the same domain (will and going to). Usage …

This article examines general extenders (GEs) in the English spoken in Toronto, Canada,
using a 1.2-million-word corpus stratified by age, sex, and education. Employing quantitative …

On the basis of synchronic and diachronic data analysis, the volume takes a close look at
the synchronic layers of binominal size noun and type noun uses (a bunch/a load of X; a sort …

The general points made are illustrated with data provided in the digitally accessible
quotation base of the OED. On the basis of the evidence, I propose a distinction between two …