Description:
This book is concerned with the quantitative, usage based, and aggregational study of linguistic variation - be it language-internal or cross-linguistic. Even though dialectologists, register analysts, typologists, and quantitative linguists all deal with linguistic variation, there has traditionally been astonishingly little interaction across these fields. The contributions in the book, written by renowned specialists in their subfields, demonstrate that there is much mutual inspiration to be had by thinking outside the disciplinary box.