A comparative study of the grammaticalized uses of English "sort (of)" and French "genre (de)" in teenage forum data KU Leuven
This paper sets out to capture language change at its forefront by studying specific data, teenage forum posts, expected to be innovative for many reasons. These data are speech-like, informal exchanges between peers, that is, they have the situational features that most promote change. Moreover, they represent communication from the most innovative age group of language users, teenagers, on the linguistically non-prescriptive Internet. ...