Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Data Availability Statement
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Grammatical and Syntactic Variation
- 3 World Englishes and Dialect Typology
- 4 The Data
- 5 Alternation-by-Alternation Analysis
- 6 Distances, Similarities, and Coherence
- 7 Experimental Corroboration
- 8 Where Are We Now, and Where to Next?
- References
- Index
8 - Where Are We Now, and Where to Next?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 August 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Data Availability Statement
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Grammatical and Syntactic Variation
- 3 World Englishes and Dialect Typology
- 4 The Data
- 5 Alternation-by-Alternation Analysis
- 6 Distances, Similarities, and Coherence
- 7 Experimental Corroboration
- 8 Where Are We Now, and Where to Next?
- References
- Index
Summary
In this chapter we summarize the study’s key findings, and contribute to theory-building by discussing these findings against the backdrop of the various frameworks to which the book is relevant, including (Labovian) variationist sociolinguistics but also World Englishes, dialect typology and dialectometry, general usage, and experience-based linguistics.
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- Comparative Variation AnalysisGrammatical Alternations in World Englishes, pp. 166 - 190Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023