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In search of patterns of historical language variation and user interaction (or: Who used what linguistic features with whom, when, where, why and how?)

Mark Richard Lauersdorf

Lauersdorf, Mark Richard

May 23, 2025

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Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

Volume 75 (2024): Issue 3 (December 2024)

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Published Online: May 23, 2025

Page range: 330 - 347

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2024-0047

Keywords
data-driven, inductive analysis, language and identity, historical language- documentation fieldwork, historical ethnographic fieldwork, tasks of historical sociolinguistics

© 2025 Mark Richard Lauersdorf, published by Sciendo

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This essay presents a set of interconnected thoughts, considerations, and conceptualizations that address what it is that we are talking about when we discuss language variation and the interaction of language users in historical contexts, and how we research patterns of historical language variation and user interaction.

Language:: English

Publication timeframe:: 2 times per year
Journal Subjects:: Linguistics and Semiotics, Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines, Linguistics, other

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