The register-specificity of probabilistic grammars in English and Dutch - Combining corpus analysis and experimentation KU Leuven
Register variation has enjoyed plenty of attention from a text-linguistic perspective and using the Multidimensional Approach (following Biber 1988). In variationist sociolinguistics, on the other hand, register has not often been examined in interaction with language-internal constraints in morphosyntactic variation research so that register’s role in probabilistic, grammatical choice-making remains unclear. Sociolinguistic theory predicts ...