Download or read book Describing and Modeling Variation in Grammar written by Andreas Dufter and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the volume is to bridge the 'cultural gap' between sociolinguistics and theoretical linguistics in the study of variation. The various contributions seek to combine corpus-based and competence-based approaches. They document the plurality