In previous literature and linguistics analysis, the Northwestern Gheg Albanian dialect is classified as one zone that encompasses area of northwestern Albania southwestern Montenegro (B. Demiraj 1997: 40, Gjinari 1989: 54-8, Mëniku 2008: vii., Shkurtaj 2016: 26). The assumed to form a single subdialect; however, evidence from various levels linguistic analysis discussed in this paper challenge...

This paper investigates the variation in cohesion across written and spoken registers. The same method and corpora were used as in Biber’s (1988) study on linguistic variation across speech and writing; however instead of focusing on 67 linguistic features that primarily operate at the word level, we compared 236 language and cohesion features at the textlevel. Variations in frequencies across ...

One of the main objectives of research in Natural Language generation (NLG) is to account for linguistic variation in a systematic way. Research on linguistic politeness provides important clues as to the possible causes of linguistic variation and the ways in which it may be modelled formally. In this paper we present a simple language generation model for choosing the appropriate surface real...

Language variationists study how languages vary along geographical or social lines or along lines of age and gender. Variationist data is available and challenging, in particular for DIALECTOLOGY, the study of geographical variation, which will be the focus of this paper, although we present approaches we expect to transfer smoothly to the study of variation correlating with other extralinguist...

Joan Veny i Clar is Professor Emeritus of Catalan Philology at the Universitat de Barcelona. He is one of the most important dialectologists of Catalan, with prominent works such as the 1978 monograph Els parlars catalans (“The Catalan dialects”), although he has also done extensive work in the diachronic linguistics and etymology of this language. He is a member of the Institut d’Estudis Catal...

Languages tend not to exhibit unpredictable variation. We explore alignment/accommodation during interaction as a mechanism to explain this cross-linguistic tendency. Specifically, we test the hypothesis (derived from historical linguistics) that interactions between categorical and variable users are inherently asymmetric: while variable users (of e.g. a grammatical marker) can accommodate to ...