Space, Diffusion and Mobility

Abstract

This chapter illustrates that space makes a difference, and to begin, in a very hesitant way, to map out what a geographically informed variation analysis might need to address. It also examines variationist interactions with the related concept of mobility. The chapter presents a brief theoretical background to space and mobility, before exemplifying these concepts in variationist research through an examination of, for example, the spatial diffusion of linguistic innovations, the spatial configuration of linguistic boundaries and initial steps to examine the consequences of mobility for variationist research. For the dialect transitions, the chapter considers a combination of geomorphological, social, attitudinal, military, economic, political and infrastructural factors which have, over time, significantly moulded people's mobilities and consequently their spatialities.

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