Dialectology meets typology : dialect grammar from a cross-linguistic perspective / edited by Bernd Kortmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kortmann, Bernd, 1960-

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 153.

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 153

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialectology.

Typology (Linguistics).

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (548 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In what ways can dialectologists and language typologists profit from each others' work when looking across the fence? This is the guiding question of this volume, which involves follow-up questions such as: How can dialectologists profit from adopting the large body of insights in and hypotheses on language variation and language universals familiar from work in language typology, notably functional typology? Vice versa, what can typologists learn from the study of non-standard varieties? What are possible contributions of dialectology to areal typologies and the study of grammaticalization? What are important theoretical and methodological implications of this new type of collaboration in the study of language variation? The 18 contributors, among them many distinguished dialectologists, sociolinguists and typologists, address these and other novel questions on the basis of analyses of the morphology and syntax of a broad range of dialects (Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Aryan).

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Dialectology and typology – An integrative perspective

Local markedness as a heuristic tool in dialectology: The case of amn’t

Non-standard evidence in syntactic typology – Methodological remarks on the use of dialect data vs spoken language data

The typology of motion and posture verbs: A variationist account

Dynamic typology and vernacular universals

Definite articles in Scandinavian: Competing grammaticalization processes in standard and non-standard varieties

Person marking in Dutch dialects

A typology of relative clauses in German dialects

Do as a tense and aspect marker in varieties of English

Typology, dialectology and the structure of complementation in Romani

Problems for typology: Perfects and resultatives in spoken and non-standard English and Russian

Comparing grammatical variation phenomena in non-standard English and Low German dialects from a typological perspective

On three types of dialect variation and their implications for linguistic theory. Evidence from verb clusters in Swiss German dialects

Substrate, superstrate and universals: Perfect constructions in Irish English

The impact of language contact and social structure on linguistic structure: Focus on the dialects of Modern Greek

Jespersen’s cycle and the interaction of predicate and quantifier negation in Flemish

“Gendered” pronouns in English dialects – A typological perspective

Population linguistics on a micro-scale. Lessons to be learnt from Baltic and Slavic dialects in contact

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612193859

9781282193857

1282193856

9783110197327

3110197324

OCLC:

277199692