A person who studies variations in usage among different speakers of the same language.
语言变异研究者
as modifierin the variationist tradition
Example sentencesExamples
Horvath is a variationist sociolinguist whose work on Australian English is internationally recognized for its comprehensiveness and methodological acuity.
A problem for variationist research lies in identifying what ‘counts’ as syntactic variation.
We hope that this cooperative dialogue between variationists and theorists will facilitate more collaborative research and increase our understanding of morphosyntactic variation.
Language variationists study how languages vary along geographical or social lines or along lines of age and gender.
Thus, variationists try to discover patterns in the distribution of alternative ways of saying the same thing, i.e. the social and linguistic factors that are responsible for variation in ways of speaking.
Definition of variationist in US English:
variationist
nounˌverēˈāSH(ə)nəst
A person who studies variations in usage among different speakers of the same language.
语言变异研究者
as modifierin the variationist tradition
Example sentencesExamples
Thus, variationists try to discover patterns in the distribution of alternative ways of saying the same thing, i.e. the social and linguistic factors that are responsible for variation in ways of speaking.
Language variationists study how languages vary along geographical or social lines or along lines of age and gender.
A problem for variationist research lies in identifying what ‘counts’ as syntactic variation.
Horvath is a variationist sociolinguist whose work on Australian English is internationally recognized for its comprehensiveness and methodological acuity.
We hope that this cooperative dialogue between variationists and theorists will facilitate more collaborative research and increase our understanding of morphosyntactic variation.