E-raamat: Research Methods in Language Variation and Change

Introduction: investigating language variation and change Manfred Krug,
Julia Schlüter and Anette Rosenbach; Part I. Collecting Empirical Data:
Section
1. Fieldwork and Linguistic Mapping:
1. Collecting ethnographic and
sociolinguistic data Daniel Schreier;
2. Using participant observation and
social network analysis Lynn Clark and Graeme Trousdale;
3. Computer mapping
of language data William A. Kretzschmar, Jr; Section
2. Eliciting Linguistic
Data:
4. Designing and conducting interviews and questionnaires Manfred Krug
and Katrin Sell;
5. Obtaining introspective acceptability judgements Thomas
Hoffmann; Section
3. Alternatives to Standard Reference Corpora:
6. Using
historical literature databases as corpora Julia Schlüter;
7. Using the OED
quotations database as a diachronic corpus Günter Rohdenburg;
8. Using
web-based data for the study of global English Marianne Hundt; Part II.
Analysing Empirical Data: Section
4. Corpus Analysis:
9. Using 'small'
corpora to document ongoing grammatical change Christian Mair;
10. Using tag
sequences to retrieve grammatical structures Sebastian Hoffmann;
11.
Categorizing syntactic constructions in a corpus Nicholas Smith and Elena
Seoane; Section
5. Phonetic and Phonological Analysis:
12. Analysing phonetic
and phonological variation on the segmental level Ulrike Gut;
13. Analysing
phonetic and phonological variation on the suprasegmental level Ulrike Gut;
14. Reconstructing stress in Old and Middle English Donka Minkova; Section
6.
Combinations of Multiple Types of Data:
15. Combining elicitation data with
corpus data Anette Rosenbach;
16. Using convergent evidence from
psycholinguistics and usage Marilyn Ford and Joan Bresnan;
17. Applying
typological methods in dialectology Lieselotte Anderwald and Bernd Kortmann;
Part III. Evaluating Empirical Data: Section
7. Basic Statistical Analysis:
18. Quantifying variation and estimating the effects of sample size on the
frequencies of linguistic variables Heikki Mannila, Terttu Nevalainen and
Helena Raumolin-Brunberg;
19. Elementary statistical testing with R Stefan
Th. Gries; Section
8. Multifactorial Analysis:
20. Analysing and interpreting
variation in the sociolinguistic tradition Sali A. Tagliamonte;
21.
Identifying multidimensional patterns of variation across registers Douglas
Biber and Bethany Gray;
22. Computing linguistic distances between varieties
April McMahon and Warren Maguire;
23. Analysing aggregated linguistic data
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi.

Manfred Krug is Chair of English and Historical Linguistics in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Bamberg. Julia Schlüter is Associate Professor of English and Historical Linguistics in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Bamberg.