Describing and modeling variation in grammar
By: edited by Andreas Dufter, Jürg Fleischer, Guido Seiler.
Contributors: Dufter, Andreas.; Fleischer, Jürg.; Seiler, Guido.
Series: Trends in linguistics -- Studies and monographs -- 204
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783110205909
Subjects: Language and languages -- Variation; Grammar, Comparative and general; Sociolinguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Andreas Dufter, Jürg Fleischer and Guido Seiler; title: Parameter-based and minimalist approaches methodological considerations on grammar variation: the right periphery as an ov/vo deciding parameter more so than the left periphery. gradience in the verb cluster / Werner Abraham; title: Variation as lexical choice: have, got and the expression of possession / Faye Chalcraft; title: Syntactic variation without regional dialects / Thórhallur Eythórsson and Jóhannes Gøsli Jónsson; title: Constraint-based approaches, the predicative as a source of grammatical variation / Judith Berman; title: Morphological variation: a declarative approach / Martin Neef; title: Different notions of variation and their reflexes in Swiss German relativization / Martin Salzmann; title: From documentation to grammatical description: prepositional phrases in Ruhrdeutsch / René Schiering; title: Usage-based, construction-based and statistical approaches. Can we factor out free choice? / Bert Cappelle; title: Empirical syntax: idiolectal variability in two- and three-verb clusters in regional standard Dutch and Dutch dialects / Leonie Cornips; title: Towards a multivariate model of grammar: the case of word order variation in Dutch clause final verb clusters / Gert de Sutter; title: Transplanted dialects and language change: question formation in Québec / Martin Elsig and Shana Poplack; title: Agreement in English dialects / Verena Haser and Bernd Kortmann; title: Semi-modal variation / Katarina Klein; title: Variation in Komi object marking / Gerson Klumpp; title: How lexicalization reflected in hyphenation affects variation and word-formation / Britta Mondorf; title: Variation in German adjective inflection: a corpus study / Said Sahel.