De Vogelaer / Seiler The Dialect Laboratory

Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-272-7347-5
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 128, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Language Companion Series

Much theorizing in language change research is made without taking into account dialect data. Yet, dialects seem to be superior data to build a theory of linguistic change on, since dialects are relatively free of standardization and therefore more tolerant of variant competition in grammar. In addition, as compared to most cross-linguistic and diachronic data, dialect data are unusually high in resolution. This book shows that the study of dialect variation has indeed the potential, perhaps even the duty, to play a central role in the process of finding answers to fundamental questions of theoretical historical linguistics. It includes contributions which relate a clearly formulated theoretical question of historical linguistic interest with a well-defined, solid empirical base. The volume discusses phenomena from different domains of grammar (phonology, morphology and syntax) and a wide variety of languages and language varieties in the light of several current theoretical frameworks.

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Vogelaer, Gunther

Seiler, Guido

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The dialect laboratory: Introductory remarks
Gunther De Vogelaer and Guido Seiler

The evolutionary-emergence model of language change
Douglas S. Bigham

Dialect data, lexical frequency and the usage-based approach
Lynn Clark

Dialect areas and linguistic change: Pronominal paradigms in Ibero-Romance dialects from a cross-linguistic and social typology perspective
Inés Fernández-Ordóñez

The role of implicational universals in language change: Evidence from Tunisian Arabic dialects
Maik Gibson

On the genesis of the German recipient passive – Two competing hypotheses in the light of current dialect data
Alexandra N. Lenz

Paths to tone in the Tamang branch of Tibeto-Burman (Nepal)
Martine Mazaudon

Dialect choice in Fiji: A variationist approach to language change in the South Pacific
Karen Park

When diachrony meets synchrony.: Phonological change, phonological variation and Optimal Paradigms
Claudia Pons-Moll

Geolinguistic data and the past tense debate: Linguistic and extralinguistic aspects of Dutch verb regularization
Rik Vosters

Tense and aspect systems of Western and Eastern dialects in Japan: Split paths of diachronic development
Kazuha Watanabe

The rise of DP-internal possessors: On the relationship of dialectal synchrony to diachrony
Helmut Weiß

Index