This journal aims to report research on the description and analysis of variation and change from the Asia-Pacific region. The journal encourages research that is firmly based on empirical data and…

The Bahnar language, a member of the Northern Bahnaric branch of the Mon-Khmer family, shows distinctive register contrasts that provide important insights into the process of registrogenesis. This…

This study examines multimodal linguistic variation in the political discourse of Taiwanese legislator Pin-Yu Lai (PYL), focusing on her stylistic shifts during parliamentary interpellations.…

This article offers the first curated synthesis of sociolinguistic research on variation and change in Philippine languages. It pursues two interrelated aims: to map and evaluate the existing body of…

This study examines path encoding in motion event expression in Cantonese spoken in Toronto and Hong Kong using a comparative variationist methodology informed by motion event typology. It…