Free variation in grammar. Empirical and theoretical approaches
- Recent years have seen a growing interest in grammatical variation, a core explanandum of grammatical theory. The present volume explores questions that are fundamental to this line of research: First, the question of whether variation can always and completely be explained by intra- or extra-linguistic predictors, or whether there is a certain amount of unpredictable – or ‘free’ – grammatical variation. Second, the question of what implications the (in-)existence of free variation would hold for our theoretical models and the empirical study of grammar. The volume provides the first dedicated book-length treatment of this long-standing topic. Following an introductory chapter by the editors, it contains ten case studies on potentially free variation in morphology and syntax drawn from Germanic, Romance, Uralic and Mayan.
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-122599 |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.234 |
| ISBN: | 978-90-272-4933-3 |
| ISSN: | 0165-7763 |
| Series (Serial Number): | Studies in Language Companion Series (234) |
| Publisher: | Benjamins |
| Place of publication: | Amsterdam/Philadelphia |
| Editor: | Kristin Kopf, Thilo Weber |
| Document Type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2023 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2023/11/03 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
| Tag: | free variation; grammatical variation |
| GND Keyword: | Empirische Forschung; Germanische Sprachen; Grammatik; Grammatiktheorie; Maya-Sprachen; Morphologie <Linguistik>; Romanische Sprachen; Sprachvariante; Syntax; Uralische Sprachen |
| Page Number: | VI; 352 |
| Note: | Gefördert durch den Leibniz-Publikationsfonds für Open-Access-Monografien |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Grammatikforschung |
| Program areas: | G1: Beschreibung und Erschließung Grammatischen Wissens |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International |