The Sociolinguistics of Grammar
Title:
The Sociolinguistics of Grammar
Author:
Åfarli, Tor A.
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9789027270511
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Publication Information:
Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (266 pages).
Series:
Studies in Language Companion Series ; v.154
Studies in language companion series.
General Note:
3.1 Informants and interviews.
Contents:
The Sociolinguistics of Grammar; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Language variation, contact and change in grammar and sociolinguistics; Acknowledgements; References; Language ecology, language evolution, and the actuation question; 1. Introduction; 2. Some consequences of thinking of languages as species; 3. Constraints on innovations and exaptations; 4. An ecological perspective on the phylogenetic emergence of language; 5. Conclusions; References; Syntactic change; 1. Introduction; 2. An examination of some functionalist theories of language change.
2.1 On the gradualness of linguistic change2.2 Adult grammars and functional forces; 2.3 Language change and the role of frequency; 3. Against UG-based model of language change; 3.1 UG-based approaches to morphosyntactic change and their inherent difficulties; 3.2 History of English: Loss of V-to-I, rise of Neg-V, and Adv-V ordering; 3.3 History of French: Loss of simple inversion, loss of V2, and loss of null subjects; 3.4 History of Scandinavian; 3.5 Parameters and processing principles; 3.6 Parameters and rules; 4. Conclusion; References.
Language contact, linguistic variability and the construction of local identities1. Introduction; 2. Long-lasting language contact settings between dialect and Dutch in the Limburg area; 2.1 Linguistic properties of the dative inalienable possession construction; 3. The social stratification of the dative inalienable possession construction; 3.1 The dialect of Montfort; 3.2 Dutch of Heerlen; 3.3 Place as a social construct: Oppositions in Limburg; 3.4 How grammar allows for 'agency': The locus of individual variation; 4. Bilingual acquisition of grammatical gender in the Randstad area.
4.1 Monolingual acquisition of neuter gender4.2 Bilingual acquisition of neuter gender; 4.3 Overuse of de in process of group identification; 4.4 The locus of individual variation; 5. Conclusion; References; The social side of syntax in multilingual Oslo; 1. Background; 2. Scope and goal; 3. Data: The Oslo-UPUS-corpus; 4. Findings and analyses; 4.1 Overall results -- interview and peer conversation; 4.2 The linguistic context; 4.3 The Socio-linguistic context; 4.3.1 XSV as a sociolinguistic variable; 4.3.2 XSV in interaction; 5. The XSV pattern in a language contact perspective.
5.1 The multilingual friendship network as a contact scenario5.2 Emergence: Imperfect L2 learning versus intentional change; 5.3 From participant oriented to discourse-oriented code switching; 6. Concluding remarks; References; The expansion of the Preteritin Rioplatense Spanish; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The case in question; 1.2 Brief notes on terminology; 2. Background; 2.1 Rioplatense: Sociolinguistic context; 2.2 Previous research on Rioplatense; 2.3 Expanding Preterits in other languages; 2.4 Grammaticalization theory and source determination; 3. Field and method.
Abstract:
In this paper, I argue that linguistics is a historical science in more than one sense: Not only is the object, language, embedded in time, but so is the study of it. This has consequences for our conception of language change. A central result of previous sociolinguistic analyses of spoken Copenhagen Danish, starting with Brink & Lund 1975, is that during the latter half of the 19th century the common European low back vowel (a) was differentiated in the Copenhagen speech community into at least four different vowel qualities all of them bearing both linguistic and sociolinguistic information.
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