UID:
almafu_9959229408902883
Format:
1 online resource (310 pages).
ISBN:
90-272-6342-6
Series Statement:
Studies in Language Companion Series ; Volume 203
Content:
"With most studies on grammatical variation concentrating on the synchronic level, a systematic investigation of long-term grammatical variation within the context of language change, i.e. from a predominantly diachronic perspective, has largely remained a desideratum. The present volume fills this research gap by bringing together nine empirically rich bottom-up case studies on morphological and morphosyntactic variation phenomena in standard and dialect varieties of Indo-European languages (Germanic, Romance, Greek). While variation has often been regarded as merely a transitory epiphenomenal symptom of change, the findings of this volume show that variation is a resilient feature of human language and answer the question what makes variation time-stable. Bridging the gap between corpus-based research on language variation and more theory-driven typological and functional approaches, the volume is of special interest for all researchers concerned with interface phenomena seeking to gain a broader understanding of the mechanisms of linguistic variation and change"--
Note:
Introduction: on the role of reorganisation in long-term variation and change and its theoretical implications / Antje Dammel, Matthias Eitelmann and Mirjam Schmuck -- Plural inflection in North Sea Germanic languages: a multivariate analysis of morphological variation / Arjen P. Versloot and Elzbieta Adamczyk -- Frequency as a key to language change and reorganisation: on subtraction in German dialects / Magnus Breder Birkenes -- The history of the mixed inflection of German masculine and neuter nouns: sound shapes, dialectal variation, typology / Elke Ronneberger-Sibold -- Genesis and diachronic persistence of overabundance: data from romance languages / Chiara Cappellaro -- Ablaut reorganisation: the case of German x-o-o / Jessica Nowak -- Reorganising voice in the history of Greek: split complexity and prescriptivism / Nikolaos Lavidas -- Making sense of grammatical variation in Norwegian / Marianne Brodahl Sameien, Eivor Finset Spilling and Hans-Olav Enger -- Manner of motion and semantic transitivity: a usage-based perspective on change and continuity in the system of the German perfect auxiliaries haben and sein / Melitta Gillmann -- Active and passive tough-infinitives: a case of long-term grammatical variation / Dagmar Haumann.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-0164-1
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
