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Perspectives on Variation - Sociolinguistic, Historical, Comparative (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
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Perspectives on Variation - Sociolinguistic, Historical, Comparative (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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The significant advances witnessed over the last years in the broad
field of linguistic variation testify to a growing convergence
between sociolinguistic approaches and the somewhat older
historical and comparative research traditions. Particularly within
cognitive and functional linguistics, the evolution towards a
maximally dynamic approach to language goes hand in hand with a
renewed interest in corpus research and quantitative methods of
analysis. Many researchers feel that only in this way one can do
justice to the complex interaction of forces and factors involved
in linguistic variability, both synchronically and diachronically.
The contributions to the present volume illustrate the ongoing
evolution of the field. By bringing together a series of analyses
that rely on extensive corpuses to shed light on sociolinguistic,
historical, and comparative forms of variation, the volume
highlights the interaction between these subfields. Most of the
contributions go back to talks presented at the meeting of the
Societas Linguistica Europaea held in Leuven in 2001. The volume
starts with a global typological view on the sociolinguistic
landscape of Europe offered by Peter Auer. It is followed by a
methodological proposal for measuring phonetic similarity between
dialects designed by Paul Heggarty, April McMahon, and Robert
McMahon. Various papers deal with specific phenomena of socially
and conceptually driven variation within a single language. For
Dutch, Jose Tummers, Dirk Speelman, and Dirk Geeraerts analyze
inflectional variation in Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch, Reinhild
Vandekerckhove focuses on interdialectal convergence between
West-Flemish urban dialects, and Arjan van Leuvensteijn studies
competing forms of address in the 17th century Dutch standard
variety. The cultural and conceptual dimension is also present in
the diachronic lexicosemantic explorations presented by Heli
Tissari, Clara Molina, and Caroline Gevaert for English expressions
referring to the experiential domains of love, sorrow and anger,
respectively: the history of words is systematically linked up with
the images they convey and the evolving conceptualizations they
reveal. The papers by Heide Wegener and by Marcin Kilarski and
Grzegorz Krynicki constitute a plea against arbitrariness of
alternations at the level of nominal morphology: dealing with
marked plural forms in German, and with gender assignment to
English loanwords in the Scandinavian languages, respectively,
their distributional accounts bring into the picture a variety of
motivating factors. The four cross-linguistic studies that close
the volume focus on the differing ways in which even closely
related languages exploit parallel morphosyntactic patterns. They
share the same methodological concern for combining rigorous
parametrization and quantification with conceptual and
discourse-functional explanations. While Griet Beheydt and Katleen
Van den Steen confront the use of formally defined competing
constructions in two Germanic and two Romance languages,
respectively, Torsten Leuschner as well as Gisela Harras and
Kirsten Proost analyze how a particular speaker's attitude is
expressed differently in various Germanic languages.
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