Siemund Linguistic Universals and Language Variation

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-023806-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 231, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Siemund, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Table of contents;6
2;List of contributors;8
3;Universals and variation: an introduction;10
4;Part 1 Varieties and cross-linguistic variation;30
4.1;Causal clauses: a cross-linguistic investigation of their structure, meaning, and use;32
4.2;Two euroversals in a global perspective: auxiliation and alignment;64
4.3;The diachronic development of article-possessor complementarity in the history of Italian and Portuguese;101
4.4;Variation as a window on universals;137
5;Part 2 Contact-induced variation;178
5.1;Gender and contact – a Natural Morphology perspective on Scandinavian examples;180
5.2;Universals of structural borrowing;213
6;Part 3 Methodological issues of variation research;244
6.1;Variation and reproducibility in linguistics;246
6.2;Parameters of morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes: prospects and limitations of searching for universals;273
6.3;Comparing varieties of English: problems and perspectives;300
7;Part 4 Variation and linguistic theory;334
7.1;Norwegian main clause declaratives: variation within and across grammars;336
7.2;Syntactic variation and change in Romance: a Minimalist approach;370
7.3;A localistic approach to universals and variation;413
7.4;Lexicon, phonology and phonetics. Or: rule-based and usage-based approaches to phonological variation;434
8;Index;476

Über Autor(innen)

Siemund, Peter
Peter Siemund, University of Hamburg, Germany.