Morphological variation : theoretical and empirical perspectives / edited by Antje Dammel, Oliver Schallert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dammel, Antje, editor.

Schallert, Oliver, editor.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 207.

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; Volume 207

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German language--Variation.

German language.

Germanic languages--Variation.

Germanic languages.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

345 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

Summary:

Morphological variation is a rather young, yet fascinating topic to study in its own right because it offers challenging evidence both for the autonomy of morphology (morphomic processes) as well as for its tight interconnection with other grammatical domains, notably phonology and syntax. Covering a wide range of phenomena (e.g. negation structures, form function-mismatches in the verbal and nominal domain, loss of morphosyntactic feature values, etc.), the contributions to this volume combine in-depth empirical studies with the explanatory potential of modern theories of grammar as well as approaches for capturing and modelling microtypological diversity.

Contents:

Introduction: on the benefits of analyzing morphological variation by linking theory and empirical evidence / Oliver Schallert and Antje Dammel

Possessive -s in German: Development, variation and theoretical status / Tanja Ackermann

Analyzing language change through a formalist framework / Raffaela Baechler and Simon Pröll

Variation and change of plural verbs in Salzburg's base dialects / Lars Bülow, Hannes Scheutz and Dominik Wallner

Content, form and realizations of Upper German case marking: Issues in modelling corpus-based data / Sophie Ellsässer

Thoughts on morphomes, on a Scandinavian background / Hans-Olav Enger

How to get lost: The Präteritumschwund in German dialects / Hanna Fischer

The interaction of phonological and morphological variation in Zurich German / Anja Hasse

Negative concord in Alemannic: An OT-approach at the syntax-morphology interface / Ann-Marie Moser

Variation in non-finiteness and temporality from a canonical perspective / Tabea Reiner

Strong or weak? Or: How information structure governs morphosyntactic variation / Helmut Weiss and Seyna Maria Dirani

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Morphological variation

ISBN:

9789027203144

9027203148

OCLC:

1081436238