Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics (Cognitive Linguistic Research)

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Table of contents

List of contributors vii


Introduction. Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics
Dirk Geeraerts, Gitte Kristiansen and Yves Peirsman 1


Part one: Lexical and lexical-semantic variation


Heterodox concept features and onomasiological heterogeneity in
dialects
Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman 23


Measuring and parameterizing lexical convergence and diver-
gence between European and Brazilian Portuguese
Augusto Soares da Silva 41


Awesome insights into semantic variation
Justyna A. Robinson 85


Applying word space models to sociolinguistics. Religion names
before and after 9/
Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Geeraerts 111


Part two: Constructional variation


The English genitive alternation in a cognitive sociolinguistics
perspective
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi 141


(Not) acquiring grammatical gender in two varieties of Dutch
Gunther De Vogelaer 167


Lectal variation in constructional semantics: “Benefactive”
ditransitives in Dutch
Timothy Colleman 191

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