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Linguistic universals and language variation /
The volume explores the relationship between linguistic universals and language variation. The contributions identify the recurrent patterns and principles behind the complex spectrum of observable variation. As a whole, the volume bridges the gap between cross-linguistic variation, regional variati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter Mouton,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
231. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of contents; List of contributors; Universals and variation: an introduction; Part 1 Varieties and cross-linguistic variation; Causal clauses: a cross-linguistic investigation of their structure, meaning, and use; Two euroversals in a global perspective: auxiliation and alignment; The diachronic development of article-possessor complementarity in the history of Italian and Portuguese; Variation as a window on universals; Part 2 Contact-induced variation; Gender and contact
- a Natural Morphology perspective on Scandinavian examples; Universals of structural borrowing.
- Part 3 Methodological issues of variation researchVariation and reproducibility in linguistics; Parameters of morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes: prospects and limitations of searching for universals; Comparing varieties of English: problems and perspectives; Part 4 Variation and linguistic theory; Norwegian main clause declaratives: variation within and across grammars; Syntactic variation and change in Romance: a Minimalist approach; A localistic approach to universals and variation.
- Lexicon, phonology and phonetics. Or: rule-based and usage-based approaches to phonological variationIndex.