Cognitive, Social, and Individual Constraints on Linguistic Variation - A Case Study of Presentational 'Haber' Pluralization in Caribbean Spanish

The present volume tries to answer the question: What constrains morphosyntactic variation? By analyzing the variable agreement of presentational haber ('there to be') in Caribbean Spanish with advanced statistical tools and theoretical constructs of Cognitive Sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and variationist sociolinguistics, it proposes an innovative theoretical model of the constraints that govern morphosyntactic variation.

About the author

Jeroen Claes, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

Product details

• Authors: Jeroen Claes
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783110521627
• ISBN: 978-3-11-052162-7
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 19 mm x 236 mm
• Weight: 497 g
• Illustrations: 36 b/w ill., 30 b/w tbl.
• Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research; Cognitive Linguistics Research (CLR); Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]; Cognitive Linguistics Research; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics