Linguistic Variation in Research Articles investigates the linguistic characteristics of academic research articles, going beyond a traditional analysis of the

Using corpus-based analyses, the book challenges widely held beliefs about grammatical complexity, academic writing, and linguistic change in written English.

The Handbook of Language Variation and Change, written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, reflects the vitality and growth of the discipli

The study of language variation in social context continues to hold the attention of a large number of linguists. This research is promoted by the annual colloq

This book for the first time reconstructs in a single theoretical framework the more important approaches to linguistic variation found in areas as different as