Determinants of a Grammatical Variation (Topics in English Linguistics, 43)
Contributors: Gunter Rohdenburg (Editor); Britta Mondorf (Editor)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9783110176476
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Variation; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; English; English language; Grammar
First sentence: During the last decade the role of frequency in the description of language and language change has received considerable attention, in particular from linguists working from a functionalist or usage-based perspective (see e.g. the papers in Bybee and Hopper 2001).