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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 168-199, March 2026.
Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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Appeals to semiotic registers in ethno-metapragmatic accounts of variation [PDF]

, 2019
Discussions of folklinguistic accounts of language use are frequently focused on dismissing them because of their limitations. As a result, not a lot is written regarding how such accounts are done and how they ‘work’.
Agha Asif, Bakhtin Mikhail M, Bourdieu Pierre, Bradley David, Deppermann Arnulf, Eckert Penelope, Gal Susan, Goffman Erving, Günthner Susanne, Hodge Robert, Kiesling Scott F., Kroskrity Paul V., Labov William, Metzger Melanie, Rampton Ben, Silverstein Michael   +15 more
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Variationist sociolinguistics and corpus-based variationist linguistics: overlap and cross-pollination potential

Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 2017
AbstractThe paper surveys overlap between corpus linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics. Corpus linguistics is customarily defined as a methodology that bases claims about language on usage patterns in collections of naturalistic, authentic speech or text. Because this is what is typically done in variationist sociolinguistics work, I argue that
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A Guide to Build (ING) GLMM Trees in Canadian Maritime English: Part 2, Linguistic Factors

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT This second paper in a two‐part methodological guide demonstrates how Generalised Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) tree analysis can be used to explore linguistic conditioning in sociolinguistic variation. Building on Part 1, which introduced the dataset and illustrated how GLMM trees reveal social patterning in (ING) variation, Part 2 focuses on the
Matt Hunt Gardner
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A Usage-Based Perspective on Spanish Variable Clitic Placement

Languages, 2020
This study provides a usage-based analysis of Spanish Variable Clitic Placement (VCP). A variationist analysis of VCP in spoken Argentine Spanish indicates that VCP grammar is constrained by lexical (finite verb) and semantic (animacy) factors ...
Pablo E. Requena
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Nigerian English research: Developments and directions

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 182-198, March 2026.
Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
wiley   +1 more source

Social Salience and the Sociolinguistic Monitor: A Case Study of ING and TH-fronting in Britain [PDF]

, 2014
This article examines the role of social salience, or the relative ability of a linguistic variable to evoke social meaning, in structuring listeners’ perceptions of quantitative sociolinguistic distributions.
Ajzen Icek, Bassili John, Campbell-Kibler Kathryn, Cedergren Henrietta, Cheshire Jenny, Daily Telegraph, Docherty Gerard, Fazio Russell, Fazio Russell, Holmes-Elliott Sophie, Houston Ann, Jespersen Otto, Kerswill Paul, Kristiansen Tore, Labov William, Labov William, Labov William, Labov William, Labov William, Labov William, Loudermilk Brandon, Mathisen Anne, McGilliard Graeme, Moore Samuel, Niedzielski Nancy, Olsen James, Patrick Peter, Preston Dennis, Preston Dennis, Reid Euan, Schleef Erik, Silverstein Michael, Strand Elizabeth, Stuart-Smith Jane, Stuart-Smith Jane, Tagliamonte Sali, Tollfree Laura, Trudgill Peter, Trudgill Peter, Visser Fredericus, Watts Emma, Wells John, Williams Ann   +42 more
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Indexing Power Through Self‐Reference: Electoral Margins and the Use of Běnxí Among Taiwanese Parliamentarians

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 56-69, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how Taiwanese members of parliament (MPs) deploy self‐referring expressions—specifically, the formal first‐person singular běnxí—to negotiate their institutional standing and project political power. By operationalizing access to objective power using the margin of victory (MoV) as one possible proxy, the research shows ...
Tsung‐Lun Alan Wan
wiley   +1 more source

Raising of the Final Atonic Vowel /o/ in Irati, Paraná

Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2018
This research (with the support of CNPq, Process number: 443809/2014-3), based on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of Variationist Sociolinguistics (LABOV, 1994, 2008), sought to investigate the raising process of the mid vowel /o/ in ...
Lucelene Teresinha FRANCESCHINI, Loremi LOREGIAN-PENKAL   +1 more
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Listening at different scales: Sociolinguistic perception and the listening subject

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.
Abstract This commentary argues that sociophonetic perception studies and linguistic anthropological analyses of the listening subject examine the same underlying process—ideologically structured listening—though at different observational scales.
Anna‐Marie Sprenger
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