About the group
Linguistic variation is a phenomenon that spans across languages, characterising all natural languages. It can be observed along different axes such as time, place, situational context, and communication channel. This variation exists in all linguistic domains, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, vocabulary, and orthography.
Our research group is open to all colleagues who research or are interested in linguistic variation in a broad sense, whether it involves mapping, describing, or explaining linguistic variation, or testing and further developing linguistic theories.
Our data sources may be written or spoken, historical or contemporary, and can come from any language or language variety – or several of these.
Our group's goal is to facilitate academic collaboration, exchange knowledge, inspiration, and mentorship.
Areas of interest
The members of the research group are engaged in a variety of research questions and areas of interest, including, but not limited to:
- socio-phonetics/socio-phonology
- socio-onomastics
- lexical and semantic variation
- sociolinguistics and written language variation
- multilingualism and language contact
- language attitudes, language ideology
- digital approaches to studying linguistic variation
- stylistics
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