Subject Pronoun Variation

A Cross-Language Sociolinguistic Study
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-1-009-55215-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Language Variation and Change

This pioneering comparative study provides the first quantitative, large-scale, cross-language analysis of subject pronoun variation, with a dataset representing more than 1000 speakers, twenty-four communities, and 6 languages: Persian, Spanish, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Mandarin, and Swabian. Over 250,000 sites of pronominal variation are analysed to reveal community-specific and universal patterns of pronoun use, providing readers with key insights into how communities vary in their characteristic rates of pronoun use and in their sensitivity to linguistic and social conditioning factors. The project employs a range of quantitative measures, statistical techniques, and visualization tools to assist readers in investigating pronominal variation from cognitive, linguistic, and social perspectives. The book includes a freely downloadable R Markdown Project for readers to use in replicating and extending the methods provided to their own projects.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erker, Daniel

Guy, Gregory R.

Beaman, Karen V.

Bayley, Robert

Adli, Aria

Orozco, Rafael

Zhang, Xinye

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Data and methods; 3. Our languages and communities; 4. Linguistic and structural factors; 5. Cognitive and discursive factors; 6. Social factors; 7. Language and dialect contact; 8. Cross-language comparisons; 9. Linguistic and structural factors; 10. Conclusions and looking; Appendices; References.

Über Autor(innen)

Guy, Gregory R.
Gregory R. Guy is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at New York University and has authored studies of sociolinguistic varieties of Portuguese, Spanish and English. His research addresses social, geographical and diachronic diversity in language and linguistic variation theory.

Erker, Daniel
Daniel Erker is Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at Boston University and director of The Spanish in Boston Project. His research interests include language variation and change, sociolinguistics and multilingualism.

Orozco, Rafael
Rafael Orozco is Professor of Linguistics and Spanish at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Spanish in Colombia & New York: Language Contact Meets Dialect Convergence (2018) and researches variationist sociolinguistics with emphases on Latin American Spanish and Spanish in the United States.

Zhang, Xinye
Xinye Zhang is a research affiliate at the Department of Linguistics, University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on sociolinguistics, second and heritage language acquisition, and language variation perception.

Bayley, Robert
Robert Bayley was a Distinguished Research Professor of Linguistics at the University of California Davis. He was the author of more than 160 publications, including The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: its History and Structure (with C. McCaskill et al. 2020).

Adli, Aria
Aria Adil is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Cologne. His work centers on grammatical variation, including syntactic, pragmatic and social-cultural aspects, aiming to conduct research with societal impact.

Beaman, Karen V.
Karen V. Beaman is Research Associate and Lecturer in Quantitative Linguistics at the University of Tübingen, focusing on language variation, coherence, and change. She is the author of Language Change in Real-and Apparent-Time: Coherence in the Individual and the Community (2024).