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