TY - T1 - Concepts and methods for integrating language typology and sociolinguistics SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/334697 T3 - nuova serie A1 - Di Garbo, Francesca; Kashima, Eri; Napoleão de Souza, Ricardo; Sinnemäki, Kaius A2 - Ballarè, Silvia; Inglese, Guglielmo PB - Officinaventuno Y1 - 2021 LA - eng AB - This paper presents the building blocks of a comprehensive framework for the typological study of linguistic adaptation, i.e. how languages change in relation to the socio-historical and environmental contexts in which they are used. We showcase a battery of concepts and methods that are geared towards systematically comparing sociolinguistic environments and linguistic structures through the study of communities in social contact. We show that these concepts and methods can be used to investiga... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 6121 Languages; linguistic adaptation; language contact; language change; typology; comparative sociolinguistics N1 - PP - ER -