Aspects of Linguistic Variation

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 an...

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Other Authors: Olmen, Daniël (auth), Brisard, Frank, editor (editor), Mortelmans, Tanja, editor, Olmen, Daniël, editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter 2019
[2018]
Edition:1st ed
Series:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424517306719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction / Mortelmans, Tanja / Van Olmen, Daniël / Brisard, Frank
  • Binding scale dynamics / Divjak, Dagmar
  • The areal factor in lexical typology / Gast, Volker / Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria
  • How comparative concepts and descriptive linguistic categories are different / Haspelmath, Martin
  • An areal typology of clause-final negation in Africa / Idiatov, Dmitry
  • Definite articles and their uses / König, Ekkehard
  • Pathways of evolution, contiguity and bridging contexts / Larrivée, Pierre / Patard, Adeline
  • On the pragmatics of logical connectives / Moeschler, Jacques
  • Notes on Eastern Armenian verbal paradigms / Plungian, Vladimir
  • 'Perhaps' in Cape York Peninsula / Verstraete, Jean-Christophe
  • On the origins of Italian anzi / Visconti, Jacqueline