
Dialectology meets Typology : Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective.
Title:
Dialectology meets Typology : Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective.
Author:
Kortmann, Bernd.
ISBN:
9783110197327
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (547 pages)
Series:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; v.153
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- Dialectology and typology - An integrative perspective -- Local markedness as a heuristic tool in dialectology: The case of amn't -- Non-standard evidence in syntactic typology - Methodological remarks on the use of dialect data vs spoken language data -- The typology of motion and posture verbs: A variationist account -- Dynamic typology and vernacular universals -- Definite articles in Scandinavian: Competing grammaticalization processes in standard and non-standard varieties -- Person marking in Dutch dialects -- A typology of relative clauses in German dialects -- Do as a tense and aspect marker in varieties of English -- Typology, dialectology and the structure of complementation in Romani -- Problems for typology: Perfects and resultatives in spoken and non-standard English and Russian -- Comparing grammatical variation phenomena in non-standard English and Low German dialects from a typological perspective -- On three types of dialect variation and their implications for linguistic theory. Evidence from verb clusters in Swiss German dialects -- Substrate, superstrate and universals: Perfect constructions in Irish English -- The impact of language contact and social structure on linguistic structure: Focus on the dialects of Modern Greek -- Jespersen's cycle and the interaction of predicate and quantifier negation in Flemish -- "Gendered" pronouns in English dialects - A typological perspective -- Population linguistics on a micro-scale. Lessons to be learnt from Baltic and Slavic dialects in contact -- Addresses of authors -- Language and dialect index -- Subject index.
Abstract:
The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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