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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2018]
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Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 203. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: on the role of reorganisation in long-term variation and change and its theoretical implications / Antje Dammel, Matthias Eitelmann and Mirjam Schmuck
- Plural inflection in North Sea Germanic languages: a multivariate analysis of morphological variation / Arjen P. Versloot and Elzbieta Adamczyk
- Frequency as a key to language change and reorganisation: on subtraction in German dialects / Magnus Breder Birkenes
- The history of the mixed inflection of German masculine and neuter nouns: sound shapes, dialectal variation, typology / Elke Ronneberger-Sibold
- Genesis and diachronic persistence of overabundance: data from romance languages / Chiara Cappellaro
- Ablaut reorganisation: the case of German x-o-o / Jessica Nowak
- Reorganising voice in the history of Greek: split complexity and prescriptivism / Nikolaos Lavidas
- Making sense of grammatical variation in Norwegian / Marianne Brodahl Sameien, Eivor Finset Spilling and Hans-Olav Enger
- Manner of motion and semantic transitivity: a usage-based perspective on change and continuity in the system of the German perfect auxiliaries haben and sein / Melitta Gillmann
- Active and passive tough-infinitives: a case of long-term grammatical variation / Dagmar Haumann.