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grbs-15275	Nachtergaele, Delphine	Variation in Private Letters: The Papyri of the Apollonios Strategos Archive	2015	24	.pdf	application/pdf	8701	453	72	Nacht ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 56 (2016) 140–163 2016 Delphine Nachtergaele Variation in Private Letters: The Papyri of the Apollonios Strategos Archive Delphine Nachtergaele 1. Introduction1 ARIATIONIST SOCIOLINGUISTICS has emphasized that variation is inherent to natural everyday (synchronic) language: language users constantly make choices between various so-called linguistic variables and they alternate among these possible choices according to the context of the utter- ance.2 On a linguistic level, the choice between linguistic var- iables is insignificant, as they are synonymous; on a social level, however, it is meaningful. Others, e.g. Exler, The Form, did not provide information on the corpus they were working on. 142 VARIATION IN PRIVATE LETTERS ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 56 (2016)	cache/grbs-15275.pdf	txt/grbs-15275.txt