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Reorganising grammatical variation: diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants
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(Studies in language. Companion series ; 203)
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ISBN:
978-90-272-0164-5
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Abstract:
With most studies on grammatical variation concentrating on the synchronic level, a systematic investigation of long-term grammatical variation within the context of language change, i.e. from a predominantly diachronic perspective, has largely remained a desideratum. The present volume fills this research gap by bringing together nine empirically rich bottom-up case studies on morphological and morphosyntactic variation phenomena in standard and dialect varieties of Indo-European languages (Germanic, Romance, Greek). While variation has often been regarded as merely a transitory epiphenomenal symptom of change, the findings of this volume show that variation is a resilient feature of human language and answer the question what makes variation time-stable. Bridging the gap between corpus-based research on language variation and more theory-driven typological and functional approaches, the volume is of special interest for all researchers concerned with interface phenomena seeking togain a broader understanding of the mechanisms of linguistic variation and change.
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Keyword:
Plural; Variation
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