variationist en · ADJ
Etymology
From variation + -ist.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Focused on systematic patterns of variation of linguistic forms.
The central ideas of variationist sociolinguistics are that an understanding of language requires an understanding of variable as well as categorical processes, and that the variation witnessed at all levels of language is not random.
2013, Robert Bayley, “Variationist sociolinguistics”, in Robert Bayley, Richard Cameron, Ceil Lucas, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 11:
Translations (1)
fr variationniste (focused on systematic patterns of linguistic variation)