Variability of linguistic variables: First approach

Abstract

Most of the research in Geolinguistics has been dedicated to analyzing the realization of linguistic variation in space. This research, however, proposes the investigation of the divergence between the isoglosses that trace linguistic variables. This is the first step to make sure the well-known saying that «every word has its history» is true. For this purpose, instead of lexical characteristics, grammatical characteristics have been used. As for as the used techniques, well known techniques in quantitative dialectology such as cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling-MDS have been used. Among the most outstanding conclusions, it should be noted that certain characteristics have been found that have same or similar geolinguistic patterns.