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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 e...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
2011. ©2005 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Trends in linguistics. studies and monographs [tilsm] ;
volume 163 |
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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, Jos 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 diach |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (vi, 345 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783110909579 |
| Index Number: | P120 |
| CLC: | H0-09 |
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Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Europe's sociolinguistic unity, or: A typology of European dialect/standard constellations -- From phonetic similarity to dialect classification: A principled approach -- Inflectional variation in Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch: A usage-based account of the adjectival inflection -- Interdialectal convergence between West-Flemish urban dialects -- Substitutions in epistolary forms of address in the seventeenth century Dutch standard variety -- LOVE in words: Experience and conceptualization in the modern English lexicon of LOVE -- On the role of semasiological profiles in merger discontinuations -- The ANGER IS HEAT question : Detecting cultural influence on the conceptualization of ANGER through diachronic corpus analysis. -- Development and motivation of marked plural forms in German -- Not arbitrary, not regular: The magic of gender assignment -- Future time reference: English and Dutch compared -- Cleft constructions in French and Spanish -- How to express indifference in Germanic: Towards a functional-typological research programme -- The lexicalization of speech act evaluations in German, English and Dutch -- Index |