1. What is perhaps the best example of a corpus-based investigation into register variation?

2. What are some examples of (syntactic) variation based on gender, social groups, and region?

• Gender: GC-Women
• Social groups: BNC-Demographic
• Dialect: Brown/LOB: have questions, he has / he's got

3. What are some of the main difficulties in examining historical variation?

4. What is a "register".  How "fine-grained" should (or could) our registers be?

5. Give examples of register variation in 1) word frequency and 2) word meaning and use

6. Give examples of register variation in 1) part of speech categories and 2) syntactic features

7. Discuss Biber's use of "factor analysis" to describe register variation

8. In Biber's model, what is a "dimension"?  How are different dimensions related to each other, and to the different registers?

9. Discuss Carter and McCarthy's idea that we may need different grammatical categories to describe different registers

10. In spite of register variation (in grammar), does it make sense to describe a register-neutral norm?  Why or why not?