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Variation in language : system- and usage-based approaches /
Where is the locus of language variation? In the grammar, outside the grammar or somewhere in between? Taking up the debate between system- and usage-based approaches, this volume provides new discussions of fundamental issues of language variation. It includes several highly insightful theoretical...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Linguae & litterae ;
50. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- System and usage: (Never) mind the gap; Part 1: System, usage, and variation; Language variation and the autonomy of grammar; The grammar of use and the use of grammar; Looking for structure-dependence, category-sensitive processes, and long-distance dependencies in usage; Variation in syntax: Two case studies on Brazilian Portuguese; Part 2: Rare phenomena and variation; Rare phenomena revealing basic syntactic mechanisms: The case of unexpected verb-object sequences in Mennonite Low German.
- The no man's land between syntax and variationist sociolinguistics: The case of idiolectal variabilityWhat you like is not what you do: Acceptability and frequency in syntactic variation; Part 3: Grammar, evolution, and diachrony; "Intelligent design" of grammars
- a result of cognitive evolution; Syntactization, analogy and the distinction between proximate and evolutionary causations; Gradual loss of analyzability: Diachronic priming effects; How usage rescues the system: Persistence as conservation.