Variation in Language: System- and Usage-based Approaches /

Variation in Language: System- and Usage-based Approaches / / ed. by Aria Adli, Marco García García, Göz Kaufmann.

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Where is the locus of language variation? In the grammar, outside the grammar or somewhere in between? Taking up the debate between system- and usage-based approaches, this volume provides new discussions of fundamental issues of language variation. It includes several highly insightful theoretical...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Adli, Aria,
Cameron, Richard,
Cornips, Leonie,
Fraser, Simon,
García García, Marco,
Guy, Gregory R.,
Haider, Hubert,
Kato, Mary A.,
Kaufmann, Göz,
Newmeyer, Frederick J.,
Rosemeyer, Malte,
Seiler, Guido,
Torres Cacoullos, Rena,
HerausgeberIn:
Adli, Aria,
García García, Marco,
Kaufmann, Göz,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:linguae & litterae : Publications of the School of Language and Literature Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies , 50
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Physical Description:1 online resource (315 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • System and usage: (Never) mind the gap
  • Part 1: System, usage, and variation
  • Language variation and the autonomy of grammar
  • The grammar of use and the use of grammar
  • Looking for structure-dependence, category-sensitive processes, and long-distance dependencies in usage
  • Variation in syntax: Two case studies on Brazilian Portuguese
  • Part 2: Rare phenomena and variation
  • Rare phenomena revealing basic syntactic mechanisms: The case of unexpected verb-object sequences in Mennonite Low German
  • The no man’s land between syntax and variationist sociolinguistics: The case of idiolectal variability
  • What you like is not what you do: Acceptability and frequency in syntactic variation
  • Part 3: Grammar, evolution, and diachrony
  • “Intelligent design” of grammars – a result of cognitive evolution
  • Syntactization, analogy and the distinction between proximate and evolutionary causations
  • Gradual loss of analyzability: Diachronic priming effects
  • How usage rescues the system: Persistence as conservation

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