Describing and Modeling Variation in Grammar /

Describing and Modeling Variation in Grammar / / ed. by Jürg Fleischer, Andreas Dufter, Guido Seiler.

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While variation within individual languages has traditionally been focused upon in sociolinguistics, its relevance for grammatical theory has only recently been acknowledged. On the methodological side, there is an ongoing competition between large-scale statistical analyses and investigations that...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Abraham, Werner,
Berman, Judith,
Cappelle, Bert,
Chalcraft, Faye,
Cornips, Leonie,
Dufter, Andreas,
Elsig, Martin,
Eythórsson, Thórhallur,
Fleischer, Jürg,
Haser, Verena,
Jónsson, Jóhannes Gísli,
Klein, Katarina,
Klumpp, Gerson,
Kortmann, Bernd,
Mondorf, Britta,
Neef, Martin,
Poplack, Shana,
Sahel, Said,
Salzmann, Martin,
Schiering, René,
Seiler, Guido,
Sutter, Gert,
HerausgeberIn:
Dufter, Andreas,
Fleischer, Jürg,
Seiler, Guido,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 204
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Physical Description:1 online resource (410 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • Parameter-based and Minimalist approaches
  • Methodological considerations on grammar variation. The right periphery as an OV/VO deciding parameter more so than the left periphery: Gradience in the verb cluster
  • Variation as lexical choice: have, got and the expression of possession
  • Variation in Icelandic morphosyntax
  • Constraint-based approaches
  • The predicative as a source of grammatical variation
  • Morphological variation:A declarative approach
  • Different notions of variation and their reflexes in Swiss German relativization
  • From documentation to grammatical description: Prepositional phrases in Ruhrdeutsch
  • Usage-based, construction-based and statistical approaches
  • Can we factor out free choice?
  • Empirical syntax: Idiolectal variability in two- and three-verb clusters in regional standard Dutch and Dutch dialects
  • Towards a multivariate model of grammar: The case of word order variation in Dutch clause final verb clusters
  • Synchronic variation in diachronic perspective: Question formation in Québec French
  • Agreement in English dialects
  • Semi-modal variation
  • Variation in Komi object marking
  • How lexicalization reflected in hyphenation affects variation and word-formation
  • Variation in German adjective inflection: A corpus study
  • Backmatter

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