Linguistic variation, loosely defined as the wholesale processes whereby patterns of language structures exhibit divergent distributions within and across langu

Linguistic variation, loosely defined as the wholesale processes whereby patterns of language structures exhibit divergent distributions within and across langu

The significant advances witnessed over the last years in the broad field of linguistic variation testify to a growing convergence between sociolinguistic appro

Based on presentations made at the meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea held in Leuven in 2001, the 14 contributions in this text illustrate the ongoing

This pioneering work on Indonesian Sign Language (BISINDO) explores the linguistic and social factors that lie behind variation in the grammatical domains of ne