Aspects of Linguistic Variation

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2019

Aspects of Linguistic Variation

Edited by: Daniël van Olmen , Tanja Mortelmans and Frank Brisard

Volume 324 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110607963

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Daniël Van Olmen, Lancaster University, UK;Tanja Mortelmans & Frank Brisard, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Tanja Mortelmans, Daniël Van Olmen and Frank Brisard Open Access Download PDF	1
Binding scale dynamics Dagmar Divjak Open Access Download PDF	9
The areal factor in lexical typology Volker Gast and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm Open Access Download PDF	43
How comparative concepts and descriptive linguistic categories are different Martin Haspelmath Open Access Download PDF	83
An areal typology of clause-final negation in Africa Dmitry Idiatov Open Access Download PDF	115
Definite articles and their uses Ekkehard König Open Access Download PDF	165
Pathways of evolution, contiguity and bridging contexts Pierre Larrivée and Adeline Patard Open Access Download PDF	185
On the pragmatics of logical connectives Jacques Moeschler Open Access Download PDF	207
Notes on Eastern Armenian verbal paradigms Vladimir Plungian Open Access Download PDF	233
‘Perhaps’ in Cape York Peninsula Jean-Christophe Verstraete Open Access Download PDF	247
On the origins of Italian anzi Jacqueline Visconti Open Access Download PDF	269

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Scholars of Cognitive Linguistics, Functional Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Typology
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 278
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 46
- Tables: 23
Keywords: Variation; Typology; Diachrony

eBook

Published: December 3, 2018
ISBN: 9783110607963

Hardcover

Published: December 3, 2018
ISBN: 9783110607956