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Complexity, isolation, and variation / / edited by Raffaela Baechler and Guido Seiler
| Complexity, isolation, and variation / / edited by Raffaela Baechler and Guido Seiler |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
| Disciplina | 417.7 |
| Collana | linguae & litterae |
| Soggetto topico | Language and languages - Variation |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
3-11-038645-3
3-11-034896-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Inflectional complexity of nouns, adjectives and articles in closely related (non-)isolated varieties -- On the origins of complexity: evidence from Germanic -- An information-theoretic approach to assess linguistic complexity -- On complexity of interrogative syntax in Northern Italian dialects -- Complex edges, transparent frontiers: grammatical complexity and language spreads -- A true split? Typological and sociolinguistic considerations on contact intensity effects -- The sociolinguistics of non-equicomplexity |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464456403321 |
| Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Complexity, isolation, and variation / / edited by Raffaela Baechler and Guido Seiler
| Complexity, isolation, and variation / / edited by Raffaela Baechler and Guido Seiler |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
| Disciplina | 417.7 |
| Collana | linguae & litterae |
| Soggetto topico | Language and languages - Variation |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Grammatical Structure
Language Change Language typology |
| ISBN |
3-11-038645-3
3-11-034896-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Inflectional complexity of nouns, adjectives and articles in closely related (non-)isolated varieties -- On the origins of complexity: evidence from Germanic -- An information-theoretic approach to assess linguistic complexity -- On complexity of interrogative syntax in Northern Italian dialects -- Complex edges, transparent frontiers: grammatical complexity and language spreads -- A true split? Typological and sociolinguistic considerations on contact intensity effects -- The sociolinguistics of non-equicomplexity |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788830203321 |
| Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Complexity, isolation, and variation / / edited by Raffaela Baechler and Guido Seiler
| Complexity, isolation, and variation / / edited by Raffaela Baechler and Guido Seiler |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
| Disciplina | 417.7 |
| Collana | linguae & litterae |
| Soggetto topico | Language and languages - Variation |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Grammatical Structure
Language Change Language typology |
| ISBN |
3-11-038645-3
3-11-034896-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Inflectional complexity of nouns, adjectives and articles in closely related (non-)isolated varieties -- On the origins of complexity: evidence from Germanic -- An information-theoretic approach to assess linguistic complexity -- On complexity of interrogative syntax in Northern Italian dialects -- Complex edges, transparent frontiers: grammatical complexity and language spreads -- A true split? Typological and sociolinguistic considerations on contact intensity effects -- The sociolinguistics of non-equicomplexity |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824579403321 |
| Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Describing and modeling variation in grammar [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andreas Dufter, Jürg Fleischer, Guido Seiler
| Describing and modeling variation in grammar [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andreas Dufter, Jürg Fleischer, Guido Seiler |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (418 p.) |
| Disciplina | 417/.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
DufterAndreas
FleischerJürg SeilerGuido |
| Collana | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs |
| Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Variation
Grammar, Comparative and general Sociolinguistics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-29657-4
9786612296574 3-11-173774-8 3-11-021609-4 |
| Classificazione | ES 100 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Andreas Dufter, Jürg Fleischer and Guido Seiler -- Parameter-based and minimalist approaches -- Methodological considerations on grammar variation: the right periphery as an OV/VO deciding parameter more so than the left periphery: gradience in the verb cluster / Werner Abraham -- Variation as lexical choice: have, got and the expression of possession / Faye Chalcraft -- Variation in Icelandic morphosyntax / Thórhallur Eythórsson and Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson -- Constraint-based approaches -- The predicative as a source of grammatical variation / Judith Berman -- Morphological variation: a declarative approach / Martin Neef -- Different notions of variation and their reflexes in Swiss German relativization / Martin Salzmann -- From documentation to grammatical description: prepositional phrases in Ruhrdeutsch / René Schiering -- Usage-based, construction-based and statistical approaches -- Can we factor out free choice? / Bert Cappelle -- Empirical syntax: idiolectal variability in two- and three-verb clusters in regional standard Dutch and Dutch dialects / Leonie Cornips -- Towards a multivariate model of grammar: the case of word order variation in Dutch clause final verb clusters / Gert de Sutter -- Transplanted dialects and language change: question formation in Québec / Martin Elsig and Shana Poplack -- Agreement in English dialects / Verena Haser and Bernd Kortmann -- Semi-modal variation / Katarina Klein -- Variation in Komi object marking / Gerson Klumpp -- How lexicalization reflected in hyphenation affects variation and word-formation / Britta Mondorf -- Variation in German adjective inflection: a corpus study / Said Sahel. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455025203321 |
| Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Describing and modeling variation in grammar [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andreas Dufter, Jürg Fleischer, Guido Seiler
| Describing and modeling variation in grammar [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andreas Dufter, Jürg Fleischer, Guido Seiler |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (418 p.) |
| Disciplina | 417/.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
DufterAndreas
FleischerJürg SeilerGuido |
| Collana | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs |
| Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Variation
Grammar, Comparative and general Sociolinguistics |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Morphology
linguistic theories sociolinguistics syntax variation (language) |
| ISBN |
1-282-29657-4
9786612296574 3-11-173774-8 3-11-021609-4 |
| Classificazione | ES 100 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Andreas Dufter, Jürg Fleischer and Guido Seiler -- Parameter-based and minimalist approaches -- Methodological considerations on grammar variation: the right periphery as an OV/VO deciding parameter more so than the left periphery: gradience in the verb cluster / Werner Abraham -- Variation as lexical choice: have, got and the expression of possession / Faye Chalcraft -- Variation in Icelandic morphosyntax / Thórhallur Eythórsson and Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson -- Constraint-based approaches -- The predicative as a source of grammatical variation / Judith Berman -- Morphological variation: a declarative approach / Martin Neef -- Different notions of variation and their reflexes in Swiss German relativization / Martin Salzmann -- From documentation to grammatical description: prepositional phrases in Ruhrdeutsch / René Schiering -- Usage-based, construction-based and statistical approaches -- Can we factor out free choice? / Bert Cappelle -- Empirical syntax: idiolectal variability in two- and three-verb clusters in regional standard Dutch and Dutch dialects / Leonie Cornips -- Towards a multivariate model of grammar: the case of word order variation in Dutch clause final verb clusters / Gert de Sutter -- Transplanted dialects and language change: question formation in Québec / Martin Elsig and Shana Poplack -- Agreement in English dialects / Verena Haser and Bernd Kortmann -- Semi-modal variation / Katarina Klein -- Variation in Komi object marking / Gerson Klumpp -- How lexicalization reflected in hyphenation affects variation and word-formation / Britta Mondorf -- Variation in German adjective inflection: a corpus study / Said Sahel. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778495603321 |
| Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Describing and modeling variation in grammar / / edited by Andreas Dufter, Jurg Fleischer, Guido Seiler
| Describing and modeling variation in grammar / / edited by Andreas Dufter, Jurg Fleischer, Guido Seiler |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (418 p.) |
| Disciplina | 417/.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
DufterAndreas
FleischerJürg SeilerGuido |
| Collana | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs |
| Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Variation
Grammar, Comparative and general Sociolinguistics |
| ISBN |
9786612296574
9781282296572 1282296574 9783111737744 3111737748 9783110216097 3110216094 |
| Classificazione | ES 100 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Andreas Dufter, Jurg Fleischer and Guido Seiler -- Parameter-based and minimalist approaches -- Methodological considerations on grammar variation: the right periphery as an OV/VO deciding parameter more so than the left periphery: gradience in the verb cluster / Werner Abraham -- Variation as lexical choice: have, got and the expression of possession / Faye Chalcraft -- Variation in Icelandic morphosyntax / Thorhallur Eythorsson and Johannes Gisli Jonsson -- Constraint-based approaches -- The predicative as a source of grammatical variation / Judith Berman -- Morphological variation: a declarative approach / Martin Neef -- Different notions of variation and their reflexes in Swiss German relativization / Martin Salzmann -- From documentation to grammatical description: prepositional phrases in Ruhrdeutsch / Rene Schiering -- Usage-based, construction-based and statistical approaches -- Can we factor out free choice? / Bert Cappelle -- Empirical syntax: idiolectal variability in two- and three-verb clusters in regional standard Dutch and Dutch dialects / Leonie Cornips -- Towards a multivariate model of grammar: the case of word order variation in Dutch clause final verb clusters / Gert de Sutter -- Transplanted dialects and language change: question formation in Quebec / Martin Elsig and Shana Poplack -- Agreement in English dialects / Verena Haser and Bernd Kortmann -- Semi-modal variation / Katarina Klein -- Variation in Komi object marking / Gerson Klumpp -- How lexicalization reflected in hyphenation affects variation and word-formation / Britta Mondorf -- Variation in German adjective inflection: a corpus study / Said Sahel. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911103134403321 |
| Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Describing and modeling variation in grammar / / edited by Andreas Dufter, Jurg Fleischer, Guido Seiler
| Describing and modeling variation in grammar / / edited by Andreas Dufter, Jurg Fleischer, Guido Seiler |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (418 p.) |
| Disciplina | 417/.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
DufterAndreas
FleischerJürg SeilerGuido |
| Collana | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs |
| Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Variation
Grammar, Comparative and general Sociolinguistics |
| ISBN |
9786612296574
9781282296572 1282296574 9783111737744 3111737748 9783110216097 3110216094 |
| Classificazione | ES 100 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Andreas Dufter, Jurg Fleischer and Guido Seiler -- Parameter-based and minimalist approaches -- Methodological considerations on grammar variation: the right periphery as an OV/VO deciding parameter more so than the left periphery: gradience in the verb cluster / Werner Abraham -- Variation as lexical choice: have, got and the expression of possession / Faye Chalcraft -- Variation in Icelandic morphosyntax / Thorhallur Eythorsson and Johannes Gisli Jonsson -- Constraint-based approaches -- The predicative as a source of grammatical variation / Judith Berman -- Morphological variation: a declarative approach / Martin Neef -- Different notions of variation and their reflexes in Swiss German relativization / Martin Salzmann -- From documentation to grammatical description: prepositional phrases in Ruhrdeutsch / Rene Schiering -- Usage-based, construction-based and statistical approaches -- Can we factor out free choice? / Bert Cappelle -- Empirical syntax: idiolectal variability in two- and three-verb clusters in regional standard Dutch and Dutch dialects / Leonie Cornips -- Towards a multivariate model of grammar: the case of word order variation in Dutch clause final verb clusters / Gert de Sutter -- Transplanted dialects and language change: question formation in Quebec / Martin Elsig and Shana Poplack -- Agreement in English dialects / Verena Haser and Bernd Kortmann -- Semi-modal variation / Katarina Klein -- Variation in Komi object marking / Gerson Klumpp -- How lexicalization reflected in hyphenation affects variation and word-formation / Britta Mondorf -- Variation in German adjective inflection: a corpus study / Said Sahel. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911145893003321 |
| Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
The dialect laboratory [[electronic resource] ] : dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change / / edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Guido Seiler
| The dialect laboratory [[electronic resource] ] : dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change / / edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Guido Seiler |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Disciplina | 417 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
De VogelaerGunther
SeilerGuido |
| Collana | Studies in language companion series (slcs) |
| Soggetto topico |
Dialectology
Dialectology - Methodology Language and languages - Variation Linguistic geography |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-53947-0
9786613851925 90-272-7347-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465409703321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The dialect laboratory [[electronic resource] ] : dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change / / edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Guido Seiler
| The dialect laboratory [[electronic resource] ] : dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change / / edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Guido Seiler |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Disciplina | 417 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
De VogelaerGunther
SeilerGuido |
| Collana | Studies in language companion series (slcs) |
| Soggetto topico |
Dialectology
Dialectology - Methodology Language and languages - Variation Linguistic geography |
| ISBN |
1-283-53947-0
9786613851925 90-272-7347-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791907803321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
The dialect laboratory : dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change / / edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Guido Seiler
| The dialect laboratory : dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change / / edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Guido Seiler |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Disciplina | 417 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
De VogelaerGunther
SeilerGuido |
| Collana | Studies in language companion series (slcs) |
| Soggetto topico |
Dialectology
Dialectology - Methodology Language and languages - Variation Linguistic geography |
| ISBN |
9786613851925
9781283539470 1283539470 9789027273475 9027273472 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911095503803321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
