Dialectology meets Typology: Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2003

Dialectology meets Typology

Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Edited by: Bernd Kortmann

Volume 153 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197327

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About this book

In what ways can dialectologists and language typologists profit from each others' work when looking across the fence? This is the guiding question of this volume, which involves follow-up questions such as: How can dialectologists profit from adopting the large body of insights in and hypotheses on language variation and language universals familiar from work in language typology, notably functional typology? Vice versa, what can typologists learn from the study of non-standard varieties? What are possible contributions of dialectology to areal typologies and the study of grammaticalization? What are important theoretical and methodological implications of this new type of collaboration in the study of language variation? The 18 contributors, among them many distinguished dialectologists, sociolinguists and typologists, address these and other novel questions on the basis of analyses of the morphology and syntax of a broad range of dialects (Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Aryan).

Author / Editor information

Bernd Kortmann is Professor at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

Reviews

"[...], this volume edited by BERND KORTMANN is an excellent starting point for future investigations into the relationship of intra-language and inter-language structural variations. I recommend the book to all typologists (and dialectologists as well)."
Thomas Stolz in: STUF 4/2004

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Introduction Bernd Kortmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Dialectology and typology – An integrative perspective Walter Bisang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Local markedness as a heuristic tool in dialectology: The case of amn’t Lieselotte Anderwald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Non-standard evidence in syntactic typology – Methodological remarks on the use of dialect data vs spoken language data Peter Auer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
The typology of motion and posture verbs: A variationist account Raphael Berthele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Dynamic typology and vernacular universals J.K. Chambers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Definite articles in Scandinavian: Competing grammaticalization processes in standard and non-standard varieties Östen Dahl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Person marking in Dutch dialects Gunther Vogelaer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
A typology of relative clauses in German dialects Jürg Fleischer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Do as a tense and aspect marker in varieties of English Bernd Kortmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Typology, dialectology and the structure of complementation in Romani Yaron Matras Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Problems for typology: Perfects and resultatives in spoken and non-standard English and Russian Jim Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Comparing grammatical variation phenomena in non-standard English and Low German dialects from a typological perspective Günter Rohdenburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
On three types of dialect variation and their implications for linguistic theory. Evidence from verb clusters in Swiss German dialects Guido Seiler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
Substrate, superstrate and universals: Perfect constructions in Irish English Peter Siemund Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
The impact of language contact and social structure on linguistic structure: Focus on the dialects of Modern Greek Peter Trudgill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
Jespersen’s cycle and the interaction of predicate and quantifier negation in Flemish Johan Auwera and Annemie Neuckermans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	453
“Gendered” pronouns in English dialects – A typological perspective Susanne Wagner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
Population linguistics on a micro-scale. Lessons to be learnt from Baltic and Slavic dialects in contact Björn Wiemer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	497
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	527

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 541
Keywords: Dialektologie; Typologie; Sprache

eBook

Published: August 22, 2008
ISBN: 9783110197327

Hardcover

Published: November 19, 2003
ISBN: 9783110179491