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You learn "free" variation is a phenomenon where multiple forms fulfill one function .

What is it about?

Rhodenburg and Mondorf 2003 collects 16 chapters investigating variation: Students of Linguistics learn "free" variation is a phenomenon where multiple forms fulfill one function (e.g., "look up a word" and "look a word up"); contributors gather occurrences primarily using corpora submitted to various mathematical analyses to determine if variation is truly free or contextually conditioned.

Why is it important?

Sometimes languages appear to be non-configurational, or they seem to scramble words around into positions within of sentences, whereby one word next to another (e.g., XY) may be separated by other words/phrases inside of that sentence (e.g., X...Y).

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Britta Mondorf and Tully Thibeau
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