"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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Main Authors:	Kopf, Kristin 1984- (Author, Editor), Weber, Thilo (Author, Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company [2023]
Series:	Studies in language companion series volume 234
Subjects:	Sprachvariante Variationslinguistik Grammatik Language and languages / Variation Grammar, Comparative and general / Morphosyntax Variation (Linguistique) Morphosyntaxe Essays
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"--
Physical Description:	VI, 352 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:	9789027214287