Aspects of Linguistic Variation / / edited by Daniël Van Olmen [and three others].

• Superior document: Trends in linguistics ; 324
• TeilnehmendeR: Van Olmen, Daniël,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 324.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 pages) :; illustrations.

"Linguistic variation is a topic of ongoing interest to the field. Its description and its explanations continue to intrigue scholars from many different backgrounds. By taking a deliberately broad perspective on the matter, covering not only crosslinguistic and diachronic but also intralinguistic and interspeaker variation and examining phenomena ranging from negation over connectives to definite articles in well- and lesser-known languages, the volume furthers our understanding of variation in general. The papers offer new insights into, among other things, the theoretical notion of comparative concepts, the social or mental nature of language structure, the areal factor in lexical typology and the diachronic implications of semantic maps. The collection will thus be of relevance to typologists and historical linguists, as well as to people studying variation within the areas of cognitive and functional linguistics." -- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Tanja Mortelmans, , Daniël Van Olmen, Frank Brisard -- Binding scale dynamics / Dagmar Divjak -- The areal factor in lexical typology / Volker Gast, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm -- How comparative concepts and descriptive linguistic categories are different / Martin Haspelmath -- An areal typology of clause-final negation in Africa / Dmitry Idiatov -- Definite articles and their uses / Ekkehard König -- Pathways of evolution, contiguity and bridging contexts / Pierre Larrivée, Adeline Patard -- On the pragmatics of logical connectives / Jacques Moeschler -- Notes on Eastern Armenian verbal paradigms / Vladimir Plungian -- 'Perhaps' in Cape York Peninsula / Jean-Christophe Verstraete -- On the origins of Italian anzi / Jacqueline Visconti.