What factors influence the choice between alternative grammatical structures such as the following: a lit / a lighted cigarette, more full / fuller of convincin

The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics (CHECL) surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English, including chapters on collocati

Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the ‘life cycle’ of linguistic variability in English using data sources that r

Provides a comprehensive overview of how variation in English world-wide is structured and the factors that motivate this structure.

While variation within individual languages has traditionally been focused upon in sociolinguistics, its relevance for grammatical theory has only recently been