Aspects of Linguistic Variation /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	[Place of publication not identified] De Gruyter, 2019.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general. Cognitive grammar. Typology (Linguistics) Cognitive grammar. Grammar, Comparative and general. Typology (Linguistics)
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12337068

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Olmen, Daniel Van, 1983-
ISBN:	3110607964 9783110607963
Notes:	Title from content provider. Open Access
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.

Table of 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

Similar Items