Free Variation in Grammar
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-lingui...
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| description | 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 Mayan. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1349362024-03-24T21:08:46Z Free Variation in Grammar Kopf, Kristin Weber, Thilo Theoretical linguistics Syntax thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology 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 Mayan. 2024-03-04T08:15:16Z 2024-03-04T08:15:16Z 2023 book ONIX_20240304_9789027249333_8 0165-7763 9789027249333 9789027214287 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/134936 eng Studies in Language Companion Series image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.234 https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.234 John Benjamins Publishing Company 10.1075/slcs.234 10.1075/slcs.234 a0ecc02e-9674-41da-98fe-e7842d79279a 9789027249333 9789027214287 234 vi, 352 Amsterdam open access |
| spellingShingle | Theoretical linguistics Syntax thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology Free Variation in Grammar |
| title | Free Variation in Grammar |
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| title_short | Free Variation in Grammar |
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| topic | Theoretical linguistics Syntax thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology |
| topic_facet | Theoretical linguistics Syntax thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology |
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