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UNINA9910460789403321 |
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Titolo |
Variation in language : system- and usage-based approaches. / / edited by Aria Adli, Marco García García and Göz Kaufmann |
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Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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3-11-034685-0 |
3-11-038457-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (322 p.) |
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Collana |
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Linguae & litterae, , 1869-7054 ; ; Band 50 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Language and languages - Variation |
Language and languages - Usage |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- System and usage: (Never) mind the gap -- 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 -- 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 variability -- What you like is not what you do: Acceptability and frequency in syntactic variation -- “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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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