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- The ubiquity of variation in language.
- Internal and external factors governing variation.
Bilingualism, diglossia.
- Theoretical models of variation.
- How change originates in variation.
- Using quantitative evidence in historical linguistics.
- Near-mergers.
Paul Kiparsky
2006-01-09