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Record Nr.

UNINA9910309747703321

Autore

Olmen Daniël

Titolo

Aspects of Linguistic Variation / / Daniël Olmen, Tanja Mortelmans, Frank Brisard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2019

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018]

©2019

ISBN

3-11-060796-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 pages)

Collana

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; ; 324

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general

Cognitive grammar

Typology (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Mortelmans, Tanja / Van Olmen, Daniël / Brisard, Frank -- Binding scale dynamics / Divjak, Dagmar -- The areal factor in lexical typology / Gast, Volker / Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria -- How comparative concepts and descriptive linguistic categories are different / Haspelmath, Martin -- An areal typology of clause-final negation in Africa / Idiatov, Dmitry -- Definite articles and their uses / König, Ekkehard -- Pathways of evolution, contiguity and bridging contexts / Larrivée, Pierre / Patard, Adeline -- On the pragmatics of logical connectives / Moeschler, Jacques -- Notes on Eastern Armenian verbal paradigms / Plungian, Vladimir -- 'Perhaps' in Cape York Peninsula / Verstraete, Jean-Christophe -- On the origins of Italian anzi / Visconti, Jacqueline

Sommario/riassunto

Linguistic variation is a topic of ongoing interest to the field. Its description and its explanations continue to intrigue scholars from many different backgrounds. By taking a deliberately broad perspective on the matter, covering not only crosslinguistic and diachronic but also intralinguistic and interspeaker variation and examining phenomena ranging from negation over connectives to definite articles in well- and lesser-known languages, the volume furthers our understanding of



variation in general. The papers offer new insights into, among other things, the theoretical notion of comparative concepts, the social or mental nature of language structure, the areal factor in lexical typology and the diachronic implications of semantic maps. The collection will thus be of relevance to typologists and historical linguists, as well as to people studying variation within the areas of cognitive and functional linguistics.