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| Other authors / contributors: | Dammel, Antje, editor.
Eitelmann, Matthias, editor.
Schmuck, Mirjam, 1977- editor.
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| ISBN: | 9789027201645
9027201641
9789027263421
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Summary: | "With most studies on grammatical variation concentrating on the synchronic level, a systematic investigation of long-term grammatical variation within the context of language change, i.e. from a predominantly diachronic perspective, has largely remained a desideratum. The present volume fills this research gap by bringing together nine empirically rich bottom-up case studies on morphological and morphosyntactic variation phenomena in standard and dialect varieties of Indo-European languages (Germanic, Romance, Greek). While variation has often been regarded as merely a transitory epiphenomenal symptom of change, the findings of this volume show that variation is a resilient feature of human language and answer the question what makes variation time-stable. Bridging the gap between corpus-based research on language variation and more theory-driven typological and functional approaches, the volume is of special interest for all researchers concerned with interface phenomena seeking to gain a broader understanding of the mechanisms of linguistic variation and change"--
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| Other form: | Online version: Reorganising grammatical variation Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018] 9789027263421
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