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James Stratton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on historical linguistics and language variation and change, with a particular interest in early modern Germanic languages. At the historical level, he employs variationist quantitative techniques to uncover patterns of variation in historical data. On a sociolinguistic level, he investigates the factors that influence linguistic choices in everyday conversation, examining the effects of social factors such as gender, age, education, identity, and ethnicity. His work combines variationist quantitative methods with corpus-based approaches to study language variation and change. He has published in various academic journals including the Journal of Germanic Linguistics, the Journal of Historical Linguistics, the Modern Language Journal, and the Canadian Journal of Linguistics. He has a strong background in language acquisition, having received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Purdue University, where his doctoral research focused on applied historical linguistics. He is currently teaching courses on the history of the English language and has plans to offer courses on sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and literature and culture of the Early Germanic peoples.
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