29.4447, Books: Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Dammel, Eitelmann, Schmuck (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:37:01
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Dammel, Eitelmann, Schmuck (eds.)

 


Title: Reorganising Grammatical Variation 
Subtitle: Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation
of linguistic variants 
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 203  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.203 


Editor: Antje Dammel
Editor: Matthias Eitelmann
Editor: Mirjam Schmuck

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027263421 Pages: 302 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027263421 Pages: 302 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027263421 Pages: 302 Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027201645 Pages: 302 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027201645 Pages: 302 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027201645 Pages: 302 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

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 this
research gap by bringing together nine empirically rich bottom-up case studies
on morphological and morphosyntactic variation phenomena in standard and
dialect varieties of Indo-European languages (Germanic, Romance, Greek). While
variation has often been regarded as merely a transitory epiphenomenal symptom
of change, the findings of this volume show that variation is a resilient
feature of human language and answer the question what makes variation
time-stable. Bridging the gap between corpus-based research on language
variation and more theory-driven typological and functional approaches, the
volume is of special interest for all researchers concerned with interface
phenomena seeking to gain a broader understanding of the mechanisms of
linguistic variation and change.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Sociolinguistics

Language Family(ies): Indo-European


Written In: English  (eng)

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