Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic Studies in the Retention, Redistribution and Refunctionalisation of Linguistic Variants (Studies in Language Companion Series, 203, Band 203) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027201641 ISBN 13: 9789027201645

Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9027201641
• ISBN 13: 9789027201645
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 302
• Herausgeber: Dammel Antje, Eitelmann Matthias, Schmuck Mirjam
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar