edited by Andreas Dufter, Jürg Fleischer, Guido Seiler
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Mouton de Gruyter,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2009
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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viii, 410 p. :
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ill. ;
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24 cm
SERIES
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs,
Volume Designation
204
ISSN of Series
1861-4302 ;
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction / Andreas Dufter, Jürg Fleischer and Guido Seiler -- Parameter-based and minimalist approaches -- Methodological considerations on grammar variation: the right periphery as an OV/VO deciding parameter more so than the left periphery: gradience in the verb cluster / Werner Abraham -- Variation as lexical choice: have, got and the expression of possession / Faye Chalcraft -- Variation in Icelandic morphosyntax / Thórhallur Eythórsson and Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson -- Constraint-based approaches -- The predicative as a source of grammatical variation / Judith Berman -- Morphological variation: a declarative approach / Martin Neef -- Different notions of variation and their reflexes in Swiss German relativization / Martin Salzmann -- From documentation to grammatical description: prepositional phrases in Ruhrdeutsch / René Schiering -- Usage-based, construction-based and statistical approaches -- Can we factor out free choice? / Bert Cappelle -- Empirical syntax: idiolectal variability in two- and three-verb clusters in regional standard Dutch and Dutch dialects / Leonie Cornips -- Towards a multivariate model of grammar: the case of word order variation in Dutch clause final verb clusters / Gert de Sutter -- Transplanted dialects and language change: question formation in Québec / Martin Elsig and Shana Poplack -- Agreement in English dialects / Verena Haser and Bernd Kortmann -- Semi-modal variation / Katarina Klein -- Variation in Komi object marking / Gerson Klumpp -- How lexicalization reflected in hyphenation affects variation and word-formation / Britta Mondorf -- Variation in German adjective inflection: a corpus study / Said Sahel