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Variation in language : system- and usage-based approaches / edited by Aria Adli, Marco Garc�ia Garc�ia, G�oz Kaufmann.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Linguae & litterae ; 50.Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 3110346850
  • 9783110346855
  • 9783110384574
  • 3110384574
  • 9783110346862
  • 3110346869
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Variation in language.DDC classification:
  • 417/.7 23
LOC classification:
  • P120.V37 V3599 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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