Describing and modeling variation in grammar /
While variation within individual languages has traditionally been focused upon in sociolinguistics, its relevance for grammatical theory has only recently been acknowledged. On the methodological side, there is an ongoing competition between large-scale statistical analyses and investigations that...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Berlin ; New York :
M. de Gruyter,
©2009.
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Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
204. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | While variation within individual languages has traditionally been focused upon in sociolinguistics, its relevance for grammatical theory has only recently been acknowledged. On the methodological side, there is an ongoing competition between large-scale statistical analyses and investigations that rely more heavily on introspection and elicited grammaticality judgements. The aim of this volume is to bridge the 'cultural gap' between empirical-variationist and formal-theoretical approaches in linguistics. The volume offers case studies that seek to combine corpus-based and competence-based appr. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 410 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9783110216097 3110216094 1282296574 9781282296572 |
ISSN: | 1861-4302 ; |