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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dammel, Antje (Editor ), Eitelmann, Matthias (Editor ), Schmuck, Mirjam, 1977- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 203.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.