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The sociolinguistics of grammar /

In this paper, I argue that linguistics is a historical science in more than one sense: Not only is the object, language, embedded in time, but so is the study of it. This has consequences for our conception of language change. A central result of previous sociolinguistic analyses of spoken Copenhag...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Åfarli, Tor A. (Editor ), Mæhlum, Brit, 1957- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 154.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: language variation, contact, and change in grammar and sociolinguistics / Tor A. Åfarli & Brit Mæhlum
  • Language ecology, language evolution and the actuation question / Salikoko S. Mufwene
  • Syntactic change: Between Universal Grammar and Fuzzy Grammar / Frederick J. Newmeyer
  • Language contact, linguistic variability and the construction of local identities / Leonie Cornips
  • The social side of syntax in multilingual Oslo / Ingvild Nistov & Toril Opsah
  • The expansion of the preterit in Rioplatenese Spanish: Contact induced? / Guro Fløgstad
  • Constructing diasystems: grammatical organisation in bilingual groups / Steffen Höder
  • Syntactic frames and single-word code-switching: A case study of Mandarin Chinese
  • Norwegian bilingualism / Tor A. Åfarli & Fufen Jin
  • Norwegian discourse ellipses in the left periphery: interacting structural and semantic restrictions / Mari Nygård
  • The myth of Creole "exceptionalism" / Derek Bickerton
  • Some notes on bare noun phrases in Haitian Creole and Gùngbè: A transatlantic Sprachbund perspective / Enoch Aboh & Michel DeGraff
  • Coding in time: On the historical character of linguistic knowledge / Frans Gregersen.