Variationist
adj, noun
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A sociolinguist who studies systematic patterns of variation of linguistic forms.
Adjective
- 1 Focused on systematic patterns of variation of linguistic forms. not-comparable
"The central ideas of variationist sociolinguistics are that an understanding of language requires an understanding of variable as well as categorical processes, and that the variation witnessed at all levels of language is not random."
Example
More examples"The central ideas of variationist sociolinguistics are that an understanding of language requires an understanding of variable as well as categorical processes, and that the variation witnessed at all levels of language is not random."
Etymology
From variation + -ist.