03279nam 2200589 450 991079266730332120230126214933.03-11-052170-910.1515/9783110524154(CKB)3710000000984012(MiAaPQ)EBC4804421(DE-B1597)473926(OCoLC)979733330(DE-B1597)9783110524154(Au-PeEL)EBL4804421(CaPaEBR)ebr11344955(CaONFJC)MIL984157(OCoLC)973834407(EXLCZ)99371000000098401220170223h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierCognitive, social, and individual constraints on linguistic variation a case study of presentational 'haber' pluralization in Caribbean Spanish /Jeroen ClaesBerlin, Germany ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :De Gruyter Mouton,2016.©20161 online resource (262 pages) illustrationsCognitive Linguistics Research,1861-4132 ;Volume 603-11-052162-8 3-11-052415-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations and other conventions -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Presentational haber pluralization -- Chapter 3: Cognitive Construction Grammar and language variation -- Chapter 4: Research questions and hypotheses -- Chapter 5: Methodology -- Chapter 6: Semantic and syntactic properties of presentational haber -- Chapter 7: Cognitive constraints on presentational haber pluralization -- Chapter 8: Social constraints on presentational haber pluralization -- Chapter 9: Individual constraints on presentational haber pluralization -- Chapter 10: Cognitive, social, and individual constraints on presentational haber pluralization -- References -- Index -- Appendix A: Story-reading task -- Appendix B: Questionnaire-reading task The present volume tries to answer the question: What constrains morphosyntactic variation? By analyzing the variable agreement of presentational haber (‘there to be’) in Caribbean Spanish with advanced statistical tools and theoretical constructs of Cognitive Sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and variationist sociolinguistics, it proposes an innovative theoretical model of the constraints that govern morphosyntactic variation.Cognitive linguistics research ;Volume 60.Spanish languageVariationCaribbean AreaSpanish languageMorphosyntaxCognitive grammarSocial aspectsCaribbean AreafastSpanish languageVariationSpanish languageMorphosyntax.Cognitive grammarSocial aspects.465Claes Jeroen1513780MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792667303321Cognitive, social, and individual constraints on linguistic variation3748426UNINA