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Titolo |
The dialect laboratory : dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change / / edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Guido Seiler |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-53947-0 |
9786613851925 |
90-272-7347-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in language companion series (slcs) ; ; 128 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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De VogelaerGunther |
SeilerGuido |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Dialectology |
Dialectology - Methodology |
Language and languages - Variation |
Linguistic geography |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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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 bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Table of contents; The Dialect Laboratory; 1. About this book; 2. Contributions of dialect evidence to hypotheses of historical linguistics: A synopsis; 2.1 Dialect evidence in the context of the Neogrammarian Hypothesis; 2.2 A structural dialectology is possible; 2.3 Sociolinguistics and change; 2.4 The discovery of dialects by generative linguistics; 2.5 Usage-based and evolutionary approaches; 2.6 Dialects in an emerging sociolinguistic typology; 3. This volume; 4. Open questions; References; The evolutionary-emergence model of language change; 1. Introduction |
2. Background: Existing models of language change 3. Introducing the evolutionary-emergence model; 3.1 Emergence at the level of the utterance, speaker, and community; 3.2 Emergence at the levels of norms and fashions; 3.3 Summary of the model; 4. Testing the evolutionary-emergence model: TRAP-retraction and the LOT~THOUGHT merger in Southern Illinois English; 5. Conclusion; References; Dialect data, lexical frequency and the usage-based approach; 1. The contribution of dialect data to theories of language |
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change; 1.1 The generative tradition |
1.2 Usage-based theories of language structure and language change 2. The North Mid C dialect area; 3. Sound change and lexical frequency; 4. Frequency effects in the North Mid C dialect; 4.1 Measuring lexical frequency; 4.2 Lexical frequency and th-fronting in the North Mid C dialect; 4.3 Lexical frequency and BIT variation in the North Mid C dialect; 5. Conclusions; References; Dialect areas and linguistic change; 1. Introduction; 2. The Standard Spanish paradigm and the dialect phenomena known as leísmo, laísmo and loísmo |
3. Ibero-Romance dialect grammar in the Audible Corpus of Spoken Rural Spanish 4. The paradigms in the North; 4.1 The Eastern Asturian paradigm; 4.2 The Basque Spanish paradigm; 4.3 The Cantabrian paradigm; 5. The Centre paradigms; 6. Discussion and conclusions; 6.1 The paradigms from a linguistic and social typology perspective; 6.2 Difussionist models and historical reconstruction; 6.3 Final conclusions; References; The role of implicational universals in language change; 1. The sedentary-Bedouin split in dialects of Tunisian Arabic; 2. Data |
3. The connection between pronominal and verbal marking4. Contact-induced change; 5. The search for explanation; 6. A proposed hypothesis; References; On the genesis of the German recipient passive - Two competing hypotheses in the light of current; 1. Introduction; 2. Two competing hypotheses on the genesis of the recipient passive; 3. Results and problems of historical corpus analyses; 4. Kriegen in the light of current dialect data; 5. Summary; References; Paths to tone in the Tamang branch of Tibeto-Burman (Nepal); 1. Introduction; 1.1 Reconstruction and variation inter- or intra- dialect |
1.2 Intermediate or unstable stages and general linguistics |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Much theorizing in language change research is made without taking into account dialect data. Yet, dialects seem to be superior data to build a theory of linguistic change on, since dialects are relatively free of standardization and therefore more tolerant of variant competition in grammar. In addition, as compared to most cross-linguistic and diachronic data, dialect data are unusually high in resolution. This book shows that the study of dialect variation has indeed the potential, perhaps even the duty, to play a central role in the process of finding answers to fundamental questions of the |
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