TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adli,Aria
AU  - Garc�ia Garc�ia,Marco
AU  - Kaufmann,G�oz
TI  - Variation in language: system- and usage-based approaches 
T2  - Linguae & litterae
SN  - 3110346850
AV  - P120.V37 V3599 2015
U1  - 417/.7 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Variation
KW  - Usage
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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
N2  - 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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