The sociolinguistics of grammar
By: edited by Tor A. Åfarlí, Brit Maehlum, NTNU Trondheim
Contributors: Mæhlum, Brit, 1957- editor
Series: Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS) -- volume 154
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Phiadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9789027259196; 9789027270511
Subjects: Sociolinguistics; Socialization; Comparative and general Grammar; Generative grammar; Linguistic change; Historical linguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: language variation, contact, and change in grammar and sociolinguistics / Tor A. Åfarli & Brit Mæhlum; title: Language ecology, language evolution and the actuation question / Salikoko S. Mufwene; title: Syntactic change: Between Universal Grammar and Fuzzy Grammar / Frederick J. Newmeyer; title: Language contact, linguistic variability and the construction of local identities / Leonie Cornips; title: The social side of syntax in multilingual Oslo / Ingvild Nistov & Toril Opsah; title: The expansion of the preterit in Rioplatenese Spanish: Contact induced? / Guro Fløgstad; title: Constructing diasystems: grammatical organisation in bilingual groups / Steffen Höder; title: Syntactic frames and single-word code-switching: A case study of Mandarin Chinese - Norwegian bilingualism / Tor A. Åfarli & Fufen Jin; title: Norwegian discourse ellipses in the left periphery: interacting structural and semantic restrictions / Mari Nygård; title: The myth of Creole "exceptionalism" / Derek Bickerton; title: Some notes on bare noun phrases in Haitian Creole and Gùngbè: A transatlantic Sprachbund perspective / Enoch Aboh & Michel DeGraff; title: Coding in time: On the historical character of linguistic knowledge / Frans Gregersen.