Theoretical approaches to linguistic variation / edited by Ermenegildo Bidese, Federica Cognola and Manuela Caterina Moroni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bidese, Ermenegildo, editor.

Cognola, Federica, editor.

Moroni, Manuela Caterina, editor.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 234.

Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today (LA), 0166-0829 ; volume 234

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Variation--Research.

Language and languages.

Languages in contact--Research.

Languages in contact.

Linguistic change--Research.

Linguistic change.

Romance languages--Variation.

Romance languages.

Germanic languages--Variation.

Germanic languages.

Bilingualism--Social aspects.

Bilingualism.

Sociolinguistics.

Research.

Language and languages--Variation.

Physical Description:

vi, 376 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

Summary:

The contributions of this book deal with the issue of language variation. They all share the assumption that within the language faculty the variation space is hierarchically constrained and that minimal changes in the set of property values defining each language give rise to diverse outputs within the same system. Nevertheless, the triggers for language variation can be different and located at various levels of the language faculty. The novelty of the volume lies in exploring different loci of language variation by including wide-ranging empirical perspectives that cover different levels of analysis (syntax, phonology and prosody) and deal with different kinds of data, mostly from Romance and Germanic languages, from dialects, idiolects, language acquisition, language attrition and creolization, analyzed from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives. The volume is divided in three parts. The first part is dedicated to synchronic variation in phonology and syntax; the second part deals with diachronic variation and language change, and the third part investigates the role of contact, attrition and acquisition in giving rise to language change and language variation in bilingual settings. This volume is a useful tool for linguistics of diverse theoretical persuasions working on theoretical and comparative linguistics and to anyone interested in language variation, language change, dialectology, language acquisition and typology.

Contents:

1 Acknowledgements p. vii

2 Introduction p. 1 / Ermenegildo Bidese; Federica Cognola; Manuela Caterina Moroni

3 Part one: Synchronic variation in phonology and syntax

4 Germanic and Romance onset clusters - how to account for microvariation p. 25 / Birgit Alber; Marta Meneguzzo

5 The use of gerunds and infinitives in perceptive constructions p. 53 / Jan Casalicchio

6 Adverb and participle agreement p. 89 / Giuseppina Silvestri

7 Why a bed can be slept in but not under p. 119 / Andrea Padovan

8 Deriving idiolectal variation p. 145 / Lieven Danckaert; Tijs D'Hulster; Liliane Haegeman

9 On the variable nature of head final effects in German and English p. 177 / Roland Hinterhölzl

10 Part two: Diachronic variation in phonology and syntax

11 Variation and change in Italian phonology p. 205 / Martin Krämer

12 Which clues for which V2 p. 237 / Cecilia Poletto

13 Parameter typology from a diachronic perspective p. 259 / Theresa Biberauer; Ian Roberts

14 Part three: On the relationship between language variation and language change in bilingual settings

15 Attrition at the interfaces in bilectal acquisition (Italian/Gallipolino) p. 295 / Roberta Colonna Dahlman; Tanja Kupisch

16 Little v and cross-linguistic variation p. 317 / Tonjes Veenstra; Luis López

17 On language acquisition and language change p. 337 / Federica Cognola; Ermenegildo Bidese

18 Index p. 371.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Theoretical approaches to linguistic variation

ISBN:

9789027257178

9027257175

OCLC:

953885857