This anthology emphasizes dialects of American English and language variation in America. The editors present original essays by today's leading investigators,

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

Traditional dialects have been encroached upon by the increasing mobility of their speakers and by the onslaught of national languages in education and mass med

Studying language variation requires comprehensive interdisciplinary knowledge and new computational tools. This essential reference introduces researchers and

This volume presents 16 original studies of variation in languages representing the three main European language families, as well as in varieties of Greek and