Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison Book

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Acknowledgments
	List of abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
2	The comprehensive analysis of register variation	27
3	Sociocultural description of the four language situations	38
4	The linguistic bases of cross-linguistic register comparisons: a detailed quantitative comparison of English and Somali registers	59
5	Methodology	85
6	Multi-Dimensional analyses of the four languages	141
7	Cross-linguistic patterns of register variation: synchronic similarities and differences	236
8	Cross-linguistic patterns of register variation: diachronic similarities and differences	280
9	Registers and text types in English and Somali	314
10	Towards cross-linguistic universals of registers variation	359
	Appendix I: Grammatical description of linguistic features in Korean	364
	Appendix II: Grammatical description of linguistic features in Somali	381
	Notes	403
	References	415
	Index	425