Variation in Language: System- and Usage-based Approaches

Published by De Gruyter 2015

Variation in Language: System- and Usage-based Approaches

Edited by: Aria Adli , Marco García García and Göz Kaufmann

Volume 50 in the series linguae & litterae

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110346855

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About this book

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 contributions as well as innovative empirical studies considering different types of data, the role of priming in language change and rare phenomena.

Author / Editor information

Aria Adli and Marco García García, Cologne University; Göz Kaufmann, Freiburg University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
System and usage: (Never) mind the gap Aria Adli, Marco García García and Göz Kaufmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1: System, usage, and variation
Language variation and the autonomy of grammar Frederick J. Newmeyer and Simon Fraser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
The grammar of use and the use of grammar Gregory R. Guy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Looking for structure-dependence, category-sensitive processes, and long-distance dependencies in usage Richard Cameron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Variation in syntax: Two case studies on Brazilian Portuguese Mary A. Kato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Part 2: Rare phenomena and variation
Rare phenomena revealing basic syntactic mechanisms: The case of unexpected verb-object sequences in Mennonite Low German Göz Kaufmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
The no man’s land between syntax and variationist sociolinguistics: The case of idiolectal variability Leonie Cornips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
What you like is not what you do: Acceptability and frequency in syntactic variation Aria Adli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Part 3: Grammar, evolution, and diachrony
“Intelligent design” of grammars – a result of cognitive evolution Hubert Haider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Syntactization, analogy and the distinction between proximate and evolutionary causations Guido Seiler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Gradual loss of analyzability: Diachronic priming effects Rena Torres Cacoullos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
How usage rescues the system: Persistence as conservation Malte Rosemeyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Linguists
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 315
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 26
- Tables: 43
Keywords: Theoretical Linguistics; Language Change

eBook

Published: July 24, 2015
ISBN: 9783110346855

Hardcover

Published: July 20, 2015
ISBN: 9783110343557