Linguistic variables towards a unified theory of linguistic variation - Lieb, Hans-Heinrich (J. Benjamins, 1993)
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LINGUISTIC VARIABLES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; On This Book; Table of contents; PART I. ORIENTATION; 1 Linguistic Variables; 2 Major Approaches to Linguistic Variation; 3 An Overview of Syntactic Variation Studies; PART II. SETTING THE STAGE; 4 The Diachronic Perspective; 5 Basic Ideas; 6 In Defense of Variety Structures: The Problem of Idiolects; 7 In Defense of Variety Structures: Classification Systems on Historical Languages; 8 The Variety Structure of a Historical Language: Overview; PART III. A THEORY OF LANGUAGE VARIETIES.
This book for the first time reconstructs in a single theoretical framework the more important approaches to linguistic variation found in areas as different as historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, stylistics, contrastive linguistics, language typology, so-called evaluation grammar, and current Chomskyan generative grammar (generally with an emphasis on syntax). The book concentrates on language-internal variation but also analyses typological research and considers the question of how linguistic descriptions may account for variation both within and betwe