TY  - BOOK
AU  - Siemund,Peter
TI  - Linguistic universals and language variation
T2  - Trends in linguistics : studies and monographs
SN  - 9783110238068
AV  - P120.V37 L5194 2011
U1  - 417 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Berlin, New York
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Variation
KW  - Linguistic universals
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Table of contents; List of contributors; Universals and variation: an introduction; Part 1 Varieties and cross-linguistic variation; Causal clauses: a cross-linguistic investigation of their structure, meaning, and use; Two euroversals in a global perspective: auxiliation and alignment; The diachronic development of article-possessor complementarity in the history of Italian and Portuguese; Variation as a window on universals; Part 2 Contact-induced variation; Gender and contact -- a Natural Morphology perspective on Scandinavian examples; Universals of structural borrowing; Part 3 Methodological issues of variation researchVariation and reproducibility in linguistics; Parameters of morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes: prospects and limitations of searching for universals; Comparing varieties of English: problems and perspectives; Part 4 Variation and linguistic theory; Norwegian main clause declaratives: variation within and across grammars; Syntactic variation and change in Romance: a Minimalist approach; A localistic approach to universals and variation; Lexicon, phonology and phonetics. Or: rule-based and usage-based approaches to phonological variationIndex
N2  - The volume explores the relationship between linguistic universals and language variation. The contributions identify the recurrent patterns and principles behind the complex spectrum of observable variation. As a whole, the volume bridges the gap between cross-linguistic variation, regional variation, diachronic variation, contact-induced variation as well as socially conditioned variation. Fundamental methodological and theoretical issues of variation research are addressed
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