The dialect laboratory [[electronic resource] ] : dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change / / edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Guido Seiler

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 417
• Soggetto topico: Dialectology; Dialectology - Methodology; Language and languages - Variation; Linguistic geography
• Altri autori: De VogelaerGunther SeilerGuido
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The dialect laboratory
• ISBN: 1-283-53947-0; 9786613851925; 90-272-7347-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811447203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Language Companion Series