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implementation in 11 languages, we are interested in the extent to which Eurolects are similar to each other, above and beyond
trivial genealogical similarities. We thus utilise a variation-oriented aggregative analysis technique to address these questions:
(a) What is the precise extent to which Eurolects are similar to each other? (b) Are similarities predicted by extra-linguistic
affinities? (c) Do factors such as EU accession dates and language policy play a role in shaping the Eurolect clusters? Our
methodology starts out from a meticulously catalogued list of corpus-based and corpus-driven lexical and grammatical features. Through the observed
presence or absence of these features, we calculate in a second step the aggregate linguistic distances between all of the
Eurolects. Finally, in step three, we use a well-established technique, Multidimensional Scaling, to visualize and interpret the
Eurolect landscape.
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