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Other authors / contributors: | Kopf, Kristin, editor.
Weber, Thilo, editor.
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ISBN: | 9027249334 9789027249333 9789027214287
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
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Summary: | "Recent years have seen a growing interest in grammatical variation, a core explanandum of grammatical theory. The present volume explores questions that are fundamental to this line of research: First, the question of whether variation can always and completely be explained by intra- or extra-linguistic predictors, or whether there is a certain amount of unpredictable - or 'free' - grammatical variation. Second, the question of what implications the (in-)existence of free variation would hold for our theoretical models and the empirical study of grammar. The volume provides the first dedicated book-length treatment of this long-standing topic. Following an introductory chapter by the editors, it contains ten case studies on potentially free variation in morphology and syntax drawn from Germanic, Romance, Uralic and Maya"--
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Other form: | Print version: Free variation in grammar Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023 9789027214287
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