Reorganising grammatical variation: diachronic studies in the rentention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants

"With most studies on grammatical variation concentrating on the synchronic level, a systematic investigation of long-term grammatical variation within the context of language change, i.e. from a predominantly diachronic perspective, has largely remained a desideratum. The present volume fills...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dammel, Antje 1976- (Editor), Eitelmann, Matthias 1977- (Editor), Schmuck, Mirjam 1977- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing Company [2018]
Series:Studies in language companion series volume 203
Subjects:
Summary:"With most studies on grammatical variation concentrating on the synchronic level, a systematic investigation of long-term grammatical variation within the context of language change, i.e. from a predominantly diachronic perspective, has largely remained a desideratum. The present volume fills this research gap by bringing together nine empirically rich bottom-up case studies on morphological and morphosyntactic variation phenomena in standard and dialect varieties of Indo-European languages (Germanic, Romance, Greek). While variation has often been regarded as merely a transitory epiphenomenal symptom of change, the findings of this volume show that variation is a resilient feature of human language and answer the question what makes variation time-stable. Bridging the gap between corpus-based research on language variation and more theory-driven typological and functional approaches, the volume is of special interest for all researchers concerned with interface phenomena seeking to gain a broader understanding of the mechanisms of linguistic variation and change ..."
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:302 Seiten illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:9789027201645

There is no print copy available.

Interlibrary loan Place Request Caution: Not in THWS collection!