"Analysing Variation in English brings together a range of perspectives on the collection, analysis and broader relevance of variable language data. In the firs

The study of how language varies in social context, and how it can be analyzed and accounted for, are the key goals of sociolinguistics. Until now, however, the

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

Methodological know-how has become one of the key qualifications in contemporary linguistics, which has a strong empirical focus. Containing 23 chapters, each d

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