Perspectives on Variation : : Sociolinguistic, Historical, Comparative /

Perspectives on Variation : : Sociolinguistic, Historical, Comparative / / ed. by Johan van der Auwera, Dirk Geeraerts, Nicole Delbecque.

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The significant advances witnessed over the last years in the broad field of linguistic variation testify to a growing convergence between sociolinguistic approaches and the somewhat older historical and comparative research traditions. Particularly within cognitive and functional linguistics, the e...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Auer, Peter,
Beheydt, Griet,
Geeraerts, Dirk,
Gevaert, Caroline,
Harras, Gisela,
Heggarty, Paul,
Kilarski, Marcin,
Krynicki, Grzegorz,
Leuschner, Torsten,
Leuvensteijn, Arjan van,
McMahon, April,
McMahon, Robert,
Molina, Clara,
Proost, Kristel,
Speelman, Dirk,
Steen, Katleen Van den,
Tissari, Heli,
Tummers, Jose,
Vandekerckhove, Reinhild,
Wegener, Heide,
HerausgeberIn:
Auwera, Johan van der,
Delbecque, Nicole,
Geeraerts, Dirk,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©2005
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 163
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Physical Description:1 online resource (345 p.) :; Figs. and tabs.
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Table of Contents:
  • I-IV
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • Europe's sociolinguistic unity, or: A typology of European dialect/standard constellations
  • From phonetic similarity to dialect classification: A principled approach
  • Inflectional variation in Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch: A usage-based account of the adjectival inflection
  • Interdialectal convergence between West-Flemish urban dialects
  • Substitutions in epistolary forms of address in the seventeenth century Dutch standard variety
  • LOVE in words: Experience and conceptualization in the modern English lexicon of LOVE
  • On the role of semasiological profiles in merger discontinuations
  • The ANGER IS HEAT question : Detecting cultural influence on the conceptualization of ANGER through diachronic corpus analysis.
  • Development and motivation of marked plural forms in German
  • Not arbitrary, not regular: The magic of gender assignment
  • Future time reference: English and Dutch compared
  • Cleft constructions in French and Spanish
  • How to express indifference in Germanic: Towards a functional-typological research programme
  • The lexicalization of speech act evaluations in German, English and Dutch
  • Index

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