Publisher's Synopsis
Language variation research asks broad questions such as, 'Why are languages' grammatical structures different from one another?' as well as more specific word-level questions such as, 'Why are words that are pronounced differently still recognized to be the same words?' Too often, research on variation has been siloed based on the particular question - sociolinguists do not talk to historical linguists, who do not talk to phoneticians, and so on. This edited volume brings discussions from different subfields of linguistics together to explore language variation in a broader sense and acknowledge the complexity and interwoven nature of variation itself.
