ERC Starting Grant · 2018
Linguistic Adaptation: Typological and Sociolinguistic Perspectives to Language Variation
The GramAdapt project researches linguistic adaptation by developing a synthesis of typological and sociolinguistic approaches to language variation. This novel framework enables combining typological data with rich sociolinguistic data into the same model and evaluating their relationship statistically. The main research question is: Can I prove with typological data that language structure adapts to sociolinguistic context? The project has 4 objectives: - to develop a methodological approach that makes it possible to combine typological and sociolinguistic data into the same model and to statistically research their relationship, - to understand the degree and nature of linguistic…
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