Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic Studies in the Retention, Redistribution and Refunctionalisation of Linguistic Variants
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Reorganising Grammatical Variation : Diachronic Studies in the Retention, Redistribution and Refunctionalisation of Linguistic Variants. / Dammel, Antje (Editor); Eitelmann, Matthias (Editor); Schmuck, Mirjam (Editor).
Amsterdam, Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018. 302 p. (Studies in Language Companion Series, Vol. 203).Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Reorganising Grammatical Variation
T2 - Diachronic Studies in the Retention, Redistribution and Refunctionalisation of Linguistic Variants
A2 - Dammel, Antje
A2 - Eitelmann, Matthias
A2 - Schmuck, Mirjam
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
M3 - Anthology
SN - 9789027201645
T3 - Studies in Language Companion Series
BT - Reorganising Grammatical Variation
PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company
CY - Amsterdam, Philadelphia
ER -
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