This chapter introduces linguistic variation, specifically contact-induced language variation, from a variationist point of view. It shows that a focus on social and linguistic constraints on variation using statistical tools provides clues for distinguishing different processes of transfer. Taking examples of subject and object expression in Bislama, an English-lexified Creole, and Tamambo, a conservative Eastern Oceanic language, it illustrates weak and strong transfers and calque/calquing.
Kanwit, Matthew, Virginia Terán & Silvia Pisabarro Sarrió
2017. Un fenómeno bien curioso: New methods for analyzing variable intensification across four dialects of Spain and Argentina. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 10:2 ► pp. 259 ff.
2015. Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Contact. Language and Linguistics Compass 9:6 ► pp. 243 ff.
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