Dialectology meets typology: dialect grammar from a cross-linguistic perspective
In what ways can dialectologists and language typologists profit from each others' work when looking across the fence? This is the guiding question of this volume, which involves follow-up questions such as: How can dialectologists profit from adopting the large body of insights in and hypotheses on language variation and language universals familiar from work in language typology, notably functional typology? Vice versa, what can typologists learn from the study of non-standard varieties? What…
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- Full title :Dialectology meets typology : dialect grammar from a cross-linguistic perspective / edited by Bernd Kortmann.
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In what ways can dialectologists and language typologists profit from each others' work when looking across the fence? This is the guiding question of this volume, which involves follow-up questions such as: How can dialectologists profit from adopting the large body of insights in and hypotheses on language variation and language universals familiar from work in language typology, notably functional typology? Vice versa, what can typologists learn from the study of non-standard varieties? What are possible contributions of dialectology to areal typologies and the study of grammaticalization?
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- Publication Date:©2004.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Mouton de Gruyter
- Place of Publication:Berlin
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2004.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (vi, 541 pages) : : illustrations, maps
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:3110197324, 9783110197327, 9783110179491, 3110179490
- oclc:ocn277199692
- LC Classification:P367
- Dewey Decimal:417/.2
Table of 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 EnglishTypology, 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
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