Describing and modeling variation in grammar

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Dufter, Andreas, Fleischer, Jürg, Seiler, Guido
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009.
Series:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 204.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Andreas Dufter, Jürg Fleischer and Guido Seiler
  • Parameter-based and minimalist approaches
  • Methodological considerations on grammar variation: the right periphery as an OV/VO deciding parameter more so than the left periphery: gradience in the verb cluster / Werner Abraham
  • Variation as lexical choice: have, got and the expression of possession / Faye Chalcraft
  • Variation in Icelandic morphosyntax / Thórhallur Eythórsson and Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson
  • Constraint-based approaches
  • The predicative as a source of grammatical variation / Judith Berman
  • Morphological variation: a declarative approach / Martin Neef
  • Different notions of variation and their reflexes in Swiss German relativization / Martin Salzmann
  • From documentation to grammatical description: prepositional phrases in Ruhrdeutsch / René Schiering
  • Usage-based, construction-based and statistical approaches
  • Can we factor out free choice? / Bert Cappelle
  • Empirical syntax: idiolectal variability in two- and three-verb clusters in regional standard Dutch and Dutch dialects / Leonie Cornips
  • Towards a multivariate model of grammar: the case of word order variation in Dutch clause final verb clusters / Gert de Sutter
  • Transplanted dialects and language change: question formation in Québec / Martin Elsig and Shana Poplack
  • Agreement in English dialects / Verena Haser and Bernd Kortmann
  • Semi-modal variation / Katarina Klein
  • Variation in Komi object marking / Gerson Klumpp
  • How lexicalization reflected in hyphenation affects variation and word-formation / Britta Mondorf
  • Variation in German adjective inflection: a corpus study / Said Sahel.