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Dialectology meets typology : dialect grammar from a cross-linguistic perspective /
In what ways can dialectologists and language typologists profit from each others' work when looking across the fence? This is the guiding question of this volume, which involves follow-up questions such as: How can dialectologists profit from adopting the large body of insights in and hypothes...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2004.
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| Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
153. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Dialectology and typology
- An integrative perspective; Local markedness as a heuristic tool in dialectology: The case of amn't; Non-standard evidence in syntactic typology
- Methodological remarks on the use of dialect data vs spoken language data; The typology of motion and posture verbs: A variationist account; Dynamic typology and vernacular universals; Definite articles in Scandinavian: Competing grammaticalization processes in standard and non-standard varieties; Person marking in Dutch dialects; A typology of relative clauses in German dialects
- Do as a tense and aspect marker in varieties of EnglishTypology, dialectology and the structure of complementation in Romani; Problems for typology: Perfects and resultatives in spoken and non-standard English and Russian; Comparing grammatical variation phenomena in non-standard English and Low German dialects from a typological perspective; On three types of dialect variation and their implications for linguistic theory. Evidence from verb clusters in Swiss German dialects; Substrate, superstrate and universals: Perfect constructions in Irish English
- The impact of language contact and social structure on linguistic structure: Focus on the dialects of Modern GreekJespersen's cycle and the interaction of predicate and quantifier negation in Flemish; "Gendered" pronouns in English dialects
- A typological perspective; Population linguistics on a micro-scale. Lessons to be learnt from Baltic and Slavic dialects in contact; Addresses of authors; Language and dialect index; Subject index