Syntactic Variation from Individuals to Populations: Language as a Complex System

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Jonathan Dunn (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Syntactic Variation from Individuals to Populations

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Language as a Complex System

Jonathan Dunn (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

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Cambridge University Press
05 February 2026

Sociolinguistics; Grammar, syntax; Computational linguistics

Series: Elements in Construction Grammar

This Element presents a computational theory of syntactic variation that brings together (i) models of individual differences across distinct speakers, (ii) models of dialectal differences across distinct populations, and (iii) models of register differences across distinct contexts. This computational theory is based in Construction Grammar (CxG) because its usage-based representations can capture differences in productivity across multiple levels of abstraction. Drawing on corpora representing over 300 local dialects across fourteen countries, this Element undertakes three data-driven case-studies to show how variation unfolds across the entire grammar. These case-studies are reproducible given supplementary material that accompanies the Element. Rather than focus on discrete variables in isolation, we view the grammar as a complex system. The essential advantage of this computational approach is scale: we can observe an entire grammar across many thousands of speakers representing dozens of local populations.

By: Jonathan Dunn (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 293g
ISBN: 9781009644358
ISBN 10: 1009644351
Series: Elements in Construction Grammar
Pages: 106
Publication Date: 05 February 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Variation in a complex system; 2. Variation across individuals; 3. Variation across populations; 4. Variation across contexts; 5. Conclusions; References.