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Describing and Modeling Variation in Grammar (Hardcover)
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Describing and Modeling Variation in Grammar (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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While variation within individual languages has traditionally been
focused upon in sociolinguistics, its relevance for grammatical
theory has only recently been acknowledged. On the methodological
side, there is an ongoing competition between large-scale
statistical analyses and investigations that rely more heavily on
introspection and elicited grammaticality judgements. The aim of
this volume is to bridge the 'cultural gap' between
empirical-variationist and formal-theoretical approaches in
linguistics. The volume offers case studies that seek to combine
corpus-based and competence-based approaches to the description of
variation. In doing so, it opens up new avenues for locating and
analyzing variability, both at the level of the individual speaker
and between speakers of different dialects and generations. The
contributions document the plurality of current research into
models of grammatical competence that live up to the challenge of
variationist data. More specifically, parameter-based (e.g.
Minimalist), constraint-based (e.g. Optimality Theoretic), and
usage-based (e.g. Construction Grammar) approaches to variation are
discussed. The volume therefore is of interest to a broad public
within linguistics, including syntacticians of different
theoretical persuasion, morphologists and sociolinguists. While a
majority of contributions addresses facets of variation in English
and German, the volume also includes variationist studies written
by specialists of French, Dutch, Icelandic, and Uralic.
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