Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades. The importance of change and variation has always been recognized i

Although usage-based approaches have been successfully applied to the study of both first and second language acquisition, to monolingual and bilingual developm

The study of code-switching has been carried out from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic perspectives, largely in isolation from each other. This

Where is the locus of language variation? In the grammar, outside the grammar or somewhere in between? Taking up the debate between system- and usage-based appr

When humans learn languages, are they also learning how to create shared meaning? In The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism, a cadre of