Free Variation in Grammar : : Empirical and Theoretical Approaches.
"Recent years have seen a growing interest in grammatical variation, a core explanandum of grammatical theory. The present volume explores questions that are fundamental to this line of research: First, the question of whether variation can always and completely be explained by intra- or extra-...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Language Companion Series ; v.234 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam/Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2023. ©2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Language Companion Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 pages) |
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| Summary: | "Recent years have seen a growing interest in grammatical variation, a core explanandum of grammatical theory. The present volume explores questions that are fundamental to this line of research: First, the question of whether variation can always and completely be explained by intra- or extra-linguistic predictors, or whether there is a certain amount of unpredictable - or 'free' - grammatical variation. Second, the question of what implications the (in-)existence of free variation would hold for our theoretical models and the empirical study of grammar. The volume provides the first dedicated book-length treatment of this long-standing topic. Following an introductory chapter by the editors, it contains ten case studies on potentially free variation in morphology and syntax drawn from Germanic, Romance, Uralic and Maya"-- |
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| ISBN: | 9027249334 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |