Kortmann Dialectology meets Typology

Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019732-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 153, 547 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kortmann, Bernd

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;5
3;Introduction;7
4;Dialectology and typology – An integrative perspective;17
5;Local markedness as a heuristic tool in dialectology: The case of amn’t;53
6;Non-standard evidence in syntactic typology – Methodological remarks on the use of dialect data vs spoken language data;75
7;The typology of motion and posture verbs: A variationist account;99
8;Dynamic typology and vernacular universals;133
9;Definite articles in Scandinavian: Competing grammaticalization processes in standard and non-standard varieties;153
10;Person marking in Dutch dialects;187
11;A typology of relative clauses in German dialects;217
12;Do as a tense and aspect marker in varieties of English;251
13;Typology, dialectology and the structure of complementation in Romani;283
14;Problems for typology: Perfects and resultatives in spoken and non-standard English and Russian;311
15;Comparing grammatical variation phenomena in non-standard English and Low German dialects from a typological perspective;341
16;On three types of dialect variation and their implications for linguistic theory. Evidence from verb clusters in Swiss German dialects;373
17;Substrate, superstrate and universals: Perfect constructions in Irish English;407
18;The impact of language contact and social structure on linguistic structure: Focus on the dialects of Modern Greek;441
19;Jespersen’s cycle and the interaction of predicate and quantifier negation in Flemish;459
20;“Gendered” pronouns in English dialects – A typological perspective;485
21;Population linguistics on a micro-scale. Lessons to be learnt from Baltic and Slavic dialects in contact;503
22;Backmatter;533

Über Autor(innen)

Bernd Kortmann is Professor at the University of Freiburg, Germany.