Types of variation [[electronic resource] ] : diachronic, dialectical and typological interfaces / / edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Juhani Klemola, Mikko Laitinen
| Types of variation [[electronic resource] ] : diachronic, dialectical and typological interfaces / / edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Juhani Klemola, Mikko Laitinen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | viii, 378 p |
| Disciplina | 417/.7 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NevalainenTerttu
KlemolaJuhani LaitinenMikko |
| Collana | Studies in language companion series |
| Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Variation
Historical linguistics Dialectology Typology (Linguistics) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-15589-X
9786612155895 90-272-9359-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910449778403321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2006 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Types of variation [[electronic resource] ] : diachronic, dialectical and typological interfaces / / edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Juhani Klemola, Mikko Laitinen
| Types of variation [[electronic resource] ] : diachronic, dialectical and typological interfaces / / edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Juhani Klemola, Mikko Laitinen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | viii, 378 p |
| Disciplina | 417/.7 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NevalainenTerttu
KlemolaJuhani LaitinenMikko |
| Collana | Studies in language companion series |
| Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Variation
Historical linguistics Dialectology Typology (Linguistics) |
| ISBN |
1-282-15589-X
9786612155895 90-272-9359-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783512403321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2006 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Types of variation : diachronic, dialectical and typological interfaces / / edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Juhani Klemola, Mikko Laitinen
| Types of variation : diachronic, dialectical and typological interfaces / / edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Juhani Klemola, Mikko Laitinen |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | viii, 378 p |
| Disciplina | 417/.7 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NevalainenTerttu
KlemolaJuhani LaitinenMikko |
| Collana | Studies in language companion series |
| Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Variation
Historical linguistics Dialectology Typology (Linguistics) |
| ISBN |
9786612155895
9781282155893 128215589X 9789027293596 9027293597 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Types of Variation -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Contents -- I. Typology and grammaticalization -- 'Triangulation' of diachrony, dialectology and typology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Scope of the volume -- 2.1 Languages and language varieties -- 2.2 Materials, methods and approaches -- 3. Interfaces -- 3.1 Approaching the issue: typology and grammaticalization -- 3.2 Diachrony and typology -- 3.3 Dialectology and typology -- 3.4 Dialectology, typology and diachrony -- 4. Towards a dynamic paradigm -- Notes -- References -- Bi-directional vs. uni-directional asymmetries in the encoding of semantic distinctions in free and bound person forms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Semantic distinctions in free and bound forms -- 2.1 Person -- 2.2 Number -- 2.3 Inclusivity and the first person complex -- 2.4 Gender -- 2.5 Summary -- 3. Free vs. bound pronoun languages and the head vs. dependent marking typology -- 4. Semantic distinctions in person forms and head vs. dependent marking -- 4.1 Hypothesis 1 -- 4.2 Hypothesis 2 -- 5. Bi-directional asymmetries in semantic distinctions and grammaticalization -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- II. Diachrony and typology -- Historical morphology from a typological point of view -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Morphological typology -- 3. Typological parameters -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Typology and comparative linguistics -- Notes -- References -- Primary adjectives in English and German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Outlining the analysis -- 2.1 General questions -- 2.2 The dimensions of comparison -- 3. The group of primary adjectives in English and German -- 3.1 Part one: Present-Day English compared to Modern German -- 3.2 Part two: Old/Middle English and Old/Middle High German -- 3.3 Part three: Germanic -- 3.4 Common Germanic Stems.
4. Prototypical adjectives and primariness -- 5. Common primary adjectives in all Germanic languages -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- The concessive connective albeit -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Data -- 1.2 Terminology -- 2. Characteristics of concessive connectives and concessive clauses -- 2.1 General characteristics -- 2.2 Sources of concessive connectives -- 2.3 Concessivity and functional levels -- 3. Diachronic developments of albeit -- 3.1 Albeit as a composite phrase -- 3.2 Albeit as an atomic connective -- 4. Albeit in PDE -- 4.1 Syntactic distribution -- 4.2 Semantic issues -- 4.3 Internet comments -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Possessives and determiners in Old English -- Introduction -- 1. Det Poss and Poss Det -- 2. The Det Poss construction -- 3. The Poss Det construction -- 4. Prehistory of the Det Poss construction -- 5. The demise of Poss Det in ME -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix: Corpora examined -- Notes -- References -- Analytic of the samyn or synthetic its? -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Personal vs possessive pronouns - problems with terminology -- 1.2 A brief history of personal pronouns in English/Scots -- 1.3 The collapse of grammatical gender and the pronominal use -- 2. Older Scots means to render neuter possession -- 2.1 The remnants of his used for neuter possession -- 2.2 Analytic constructions in neuter possessive contexts in Older Scots vs synthetic its -- 3. Data analysis -- 3.1 The material -- 3.2 The procedure -- 3.3 Registers and thematic groups -- 3.4 Chronological distribution -- 4. Conclusions -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Expressing human indefiniteness in English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Typology of indefinite expressions -- 2.1 Indefiniteness specified -- 2.2 From the concept of indefiniteness to indefiniteness in pronouns -- 3. Singular and plural variation in English. 4. Diachronic typology and markedness of the variants -- 5. Indefinite expressions and pronominal number in diachrony -- 6. Material and criteria for inclusion -- 7. Number variation following common gender one and NPs -- 7.1 Third person pronouns with one -- 7.2 Third person forms with NPs of common gender -- 7.3 Discussion of the results of one and NPs -- 8. Cataphoric personal reference -- 8.1 Third person and demonstrative variants in cataphora -- 8.2 Discussion of cataphoric reference -- 9. Conclusions -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- III. Dialectology and typology -- Dialect and typology -- 1. Line of argument: What is a dialect essentially? -- 2. Dialect and typology: the concepts and how they are embedded -- 3. L-change and L-learning as Darwinian processes of selection: concepts -- 4. Oral dialect and the typological parameter: Parsing in the hearing domain - the structural rise of discourse prominence -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Somerset relativizers revisited -- Note -- References -- Resilient or yielding? -- 1. 'Begorrah, Ned or maybe g'day?' -- 2. The sources and the questions -- 2.1 The sources -- 2.2 The questions -- 3. Unbound reflexive pronouns -- 4. The perfective aspect -- 4.1 After perfects (AFP) -- 4.2 The medial object perfect (MOP) -- 5. The expression of habitual aspect -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- IV. Dialectology, typology and diachrony -- Negative indefinites -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dialectology -- 3. The diachrony of iemand niet 'someone not' -- 4. The typology of iemand (…) niet 'someone not' -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The relatives who and what in northern East Anglia -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Local history of the personal subject relatives -- 2.1 Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC) -- 2.2 Hickling corpus -- 2.3 The Francis Corpus. 2.4 Forby, Wright and SED on What -- 2.5 Theoretical discussion -- 3. SED Norfolk. subdialects in the Francis Corpus -- 3.1 First sorting -- 3.2 Syntactic typology of the two (rural) subdialects -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Vernacular universals? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous research -- 2.1 Typology and markedness -- 2.2 Was/were variation in Present-day English dialects -- 2.3 Earlier regional variation -- 3. Material and method -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Regional distribution -- 4.2 Vernacular patterns -- 4.3 Multivariate analysis -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 Subject-type generalizations -- 5.2 Comparison with Finnish -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index of languages -- Index of authors -- Index of subjects -- The series Studies in Language Companion Series. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910955449303321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2006 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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