Aspects of Linguistic Variation / Daniël Olmen, Tanja Mortelmans, Frank Brisard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olmen, Daniël

Contributor:

Brisard, Frank, editor.

Mortelmans, Tanja, editor.

Olmen, Daniël, editor.

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 324

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Cognitive grammar.

Typology (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Linguistic variation is a topic of ongoing interest to the field. Its description and its explanations continue to intrigue scholars from many different backgrounds. By taking a deliberately broad perspective on the matter, covering not only crosslinguistic and diachronic but also intralinguistic and interspeaker variation and examining phenomena ranging from negation over connectives to definite articles in well- and lesser-known languages, the volume furthers our understanding of variation in general. The papers offer new insights into, among other things, the theoretical notion of comparative concepts, the social or mental nature of language structure, the areal factor in lexical typology and the diachronic implications of semantic maps. The collection will thus be of relevance to typologists and historical linguists, as well as to people studying variation within the areas of cognitive and functional linguistics.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction / Mortelmans, Tanja / Van Olmen, Daniël / Brisard, Frank

Binding scale dynamics / Divjak, Dagmar

The areal factor in lexical typology / Gast, Volker / Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria

How comparative concepts and descriptive linguistic categories are different / Haspelmath, Martin

An areal typology of clause-final negation in Africa / Idiatov, Dmitry

Definite articles and their uses / König, Ekkehard

Pathways of evolution, contiguity and bridging contexts / Larrivée, Pierre / Patard, Adeline

On the pragmatics of logical connectives / Moeschler, Jacques

Notes on Eastern Armenian verbal paradigms / Plungian, Vladimir

'Perhaps' in Cape York Peninsula / Verstraete, Jean-Christophe

On the origins of Italian anzi / Visconti, Jacqueline

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783110607963

3110607964

OCLC:

1078912368

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access