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

"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 intralinguis...

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Superior document:Trends in linguistics ; 324
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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.
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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.