LEADER 06904nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910788424603321 005 20230617015847.0 010 $a3-11-090957-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110909579 035 $a(CKB)3360000000338490 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000560097 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11382024 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000560097 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10568442 035 $a(PQKB)11188274 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3041788 035 $a(WaSeSS)Ind00014236 035 $a(DE-B1597)56588 035 $a(OCoLC)979883585 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110909579 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3041788 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10597496 035 $a(OCoLC)922944837 035 $a(EXLCZ)993360000000338490 100 $a20050126d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aPerspectives on variation$b[electronic resource] $esociolinguistic, historical, comparative /$fedited by Nicole Delbecque, Johan van der Auwera, Dirk Geeraerts 205 $aReprint 2011 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cMouton de Gruyter$dc2005 215 $avi, 345 p. $cill 225 0 $aTrends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;$v163 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a3-11-018284-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tTable of contents --$tIntroduction --$tEurope's sociolinguistic unity, or: A typology of European dialect/standard constellations /$rAuer, Peter --$tFrom phonetic similarity to dialect classification: A principled approach /$rHeggarty, Paul / McMahon, April / McMahon, Robert --$tInflectional variation in Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch: A usage-based account of the adjectival inflection /$rTummers, Jose / Speelman, Dirk / Geeraerts, Dirk --$tInterdialectal convergence between West-Flemish urban dialects /$rVandekerckhove, Reinhild --$tSubstitutions in epistolary forms of address in the seventeenth century Dutch standard variety /$rLeuvensteijn, Arjan van --$tLOVE in words: Experience and conceptualization in the modern English lexicon of LOVE /$rTissari, Heli --$tOn the role of semasiological profiles in merger discontinuations /$rMolina, Clara --$tThe ANGER IS HEAT question : Detecting cultural influence on the conceptualization of ANGER through diachronic corpus analysis. /$rGevaert, Caroline --$tDevelopment and motivation of marked plural forms in German /$rWegener, Heide --$tNot arbitrary, not regular: The magic of gender assignment /$rKilarski, Marcin / Krynicki, Grzegorz --$tFuture time reference: English and Dutch compared /$rBeheydt, Griet --$tCleft constructions in French and Spanish /$rSteen, Katleen Van den --$tHow to express indifference in Germanic: Towards a functional-typological research programme /$rLeuschner, Torsten --$tThe lexicalization of speech act evaluations in German, English and Dutch /$rHarras, Gisela / Proost, Kristel --$tIndex 330 $aThe significant advances witnessed over the last years in the broad field of linguistic variation testify to a growing convergence between sociolinguistic approaches and the somewhat older historical and comparative research traditions. Particularly within cognitive and functional linguistics, the evolution towards a maximally dynamic approach to language goes hand in hand with a renewed interest in corpus research and quantitative methods of analysis. Many researchers feel that only in this way one can do justice to the complex interaction of forces and factors involved in linguistic variability, both synchronically and diachronically. The contributions to the present volume illustrate the ongoing evolution of the field. By bringing together a series of analyses that rely on extensive corpuses to shed light on sociolinguistic, historical, and comparative forms of variation, the volume highlights the interaction between these subfields. Most of the contributions go back to talks presented at the meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea held in Leuven in 2001. The volume starts with a global typological view on the sociolinguistic landscape of Europe offered by Peter Auer. It is followed by a methodological proposal for measuring phonetic similarity between dialects designed by Paul Heggarty, April McMahon, and Robert McMahon. Various papers deal with specific phenomena of socially and conceptually driven variation within a single language. For Dutch, José Tummers, Dirk Speelman, and Dirk Geeraerts analyze inflectional variation in Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch, Reinhild Vandekerckhove focuses on interdialectal convergence between West-Flemish urban dialects, and Arjan van Leuvensteijn studies competing forms of address in the 17th century Dutch standard variety. The cultural and conceptual dimension is also present in the diachronic lexicosemantic explorations presented by Heli Tissari, Clara Molina, and Caroline Gevaert for English expressions referring to the experiential domains of love, sorrow and anger, respectively: the history of words is systematically linked up with the images they convey and the evolving conceptualizations they reveal. The papers by Heide Wegener and by Marcin Kilarski and Grzegorz Krynicki constitute a plea against arbitrariness of alternations at the level of nominal morphology: dealing with marked plural forms in German, and with gender assignment to English loanwords in the Scandinavian languages, respectively, their distributional accounts bring into the picture a variety of motivating factors. The four cross-linguistic studies that close the volume focus on the differing ways in which even closely related languages exploit parallel morphosyntactic patterns. They share the same methodological concern for combining rigorous parametrization and quantification with conceptual and discourse-functional explanations. While Griet Beheydt and Katleen Van den Steen confront the use of formally defined competing constructions in two Germanic and two Romance languages, respectively, Torsten Leuschner as well as Gisela Harras and Kirsten Proost analyze how a particular speaker's attitude is expressed differently in various Germanic languages. 410 0$aTrends in linguistics.$pStudies and monographs ;$v163. 606 $aLanguage and languages$xVariation 606 $aLinguistics 610 $aVariation (Language). 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xVariation. 615 0$aLinguistics. 676 $a417/.7 686 $aES 126$2rvk 701 $aDelbecque$b Nicole$0147950 701 $aAuwera$b Johan van der$0310993 701 $aGeeraerts$b Dirk$f1955-$0548434 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788424603321 996 $aPerspectives on variation$93825563 997 $aUNINA