Variation in Language: System- and Usage-based Approaches

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.

About the author

Aria Adli and Marco García García, Cologne University; Göz Kaufmann, Freiburg University.

Product details

• Assisted by: Aria Adli (Editor), Marco García García (Editor), Göz Kaufmann (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.07.2015
• EAN: 9783110343557
• ISBN: 978-3-11-034355-7
• No. of pages: 315
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 20 mm x 237 mm
• Weight: 593 g
• Illustrations: 26 b/w ill., 43 b/w tbl.
• Series: linguae & litterae; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics