Variation in Language: System- and Usage-based Approaches / / ed. by Aria Adli, Marco García García, Göz Kaufmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Adli, Aria,; Cameron, Richard,; Cornips, Leonie,; Fraser, Simon,; García García, Marco,; Guy, Gregory R.,; Haider, Hubert,; Kato, Mary A.,; Kaufmann, Göz,; Newmeyer, Frederick J.,; Rosemeyer, Malte,; Seiler, Guido,; Torres Cacoullos, Rena,
• HerausgeberIn: Adli, Aria,; García García, Marco,; Kaufmann, Göz,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: linguae & litterae : Publications of the School of Language and Literature Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies , 50
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (315 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; System and usage: (Never) mind the gap --; Part 1: System, usage, and variation --; Language variation and the autonomy of grammar --; The grammar of use and the use of grammar --; Looking for structure-dependence, category-sensitive processes, and long-distance dependencies in usage --; Variation in syntax: Two case studies on Brazilian Portuguese --; Part 2: Rare phenomena and variation --; Rare phenomena revealing basic syntactic mechanisms: The case of unexpected verb-object sequences in Mennonite Low German --; The no man’s land between syntax and variationist sociolinguistics: The case of idiolectal variability --; What you like is not what you do: Acceptability and frequency in syntactic variation --; Part 3: Grammar, evolution, and diachrony --; “Intelligent design” of grammars – a result of cognitive evolution --; Syntactization, analogy and the distinction between proximate and evolutionary causations --; Gradual loss of analyzability: Diachronic priming effects --; How usage rescues the system: Persistence as conservation
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110346855; 9783110762518; 9783110700985; 9783110439687; 9783110438710
• ISSN: 1869-7054
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110346855
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Aria Adli, Marco García García, Göz Kaufmann.

Where is the locus of language variation? In the grammar, outside the grammar or somewhere in between? Taking up the debate between system- and usage-based approaches, this volume provides new discussions of fundamental issues of language variation. It includes several highly insightful theoretical contributions as well as innovative empirical studies considering different types of data, the role of priming in language change and rare phenomena.