Dammel Antje Dammel & Eitelmann Matthias Eitelmann 
Reorganising Grammatical Variation [EPUB ebook] 
Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants

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With most studies on grammatical variation concentrating on the synchronic level, a systematic investigation of long-term grammatical variation within the context of language change, i.e. from a predominantly diachronic perspective, has largely remained a desideratum. The present volume fills this research gap by bringing together nine empirically rich bottom-up case studies on morphological and morphosyntactic variation phenomena in standard and dialect varieties of Indo-European languages (Germanic, Romance, Greek). While variation has often been regarded as merely a transitory epiphenomenal symptom of change, the findings of this volume show that variation is a resilient feature of human language and answer the question what makes variation time-stable. Bridging the gap between corpus-based research on language variation and more theory-driven typological and functional approaches, the volume is of special interest for all researchers concerned with interface phenomena seeking to gain a broader understanding of the mechanisms of linguistic variation and change.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 308 ● ISBN 9789027263421 ● Editor Dammel Antje Dammel & Eitelmann Matthias Eitelmann ● Publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company ● Published 2018 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 6693045 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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