Techniques of analysis (II) Morphosyntactic variation

2006 ◽  
pp. 48-60
Keyword(s):  
Morphosyntactic Variation

Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Morphosyntactic Variation ◽  
Word Structure ◽  
Syntactic Theory ◽  
Standard Data ◽  
Conceptual Background ◽  
Indispensable Tool ◽  
Empirical Foundation

This book offers a wide-ranging array of case studies on variation and change in Gallo-Romance grammar. Both standard and non-standard Gallo-Romance data have the potential to be of enormous value to studies of morphosyntactic variation and change, yet, as the volume demonstrates, non-standard and comparative Gallo-Romance data has often been lacking in both synchronic and diachronic studies. The introduction sets out the conceptual background to the volume. There follow chapters by leading scholars on a variety of topics in the domains of sentence structure, the verb complex, and word structure. The empirical foundation of the volume is exceptionally rich, drawing on standard and non-standard data from French, Occitan, Francoprovençal, Picard, Wallon, and Norman. This diversity is also reflected in the theoretical and conceptual approaches adopted, which span traditional philology, sociolinguistics, formal morphological and syntactic theory, semantics, and discourse-pragmatics. The volume will thus be an indispensable tool for French and (Gallo-)Romance linguistics as well as for readers interested in grammatical theory, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics.

World Englishes and Dialectology

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lieselotte Anderwald
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Englishes ◽  
Morphosyntactic Variation ◽  
New Methods ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The Comparative Study

This chapter summarizes new approaches to the study of traditional dialects, in particular in Britain and the United States, and discusses how new methods, new results, and new topics of investigation may inform and enrich the study of World Englishes, too. Of particular importance may be the acknowledgement of widespread variability in the ‘homeland’ that is increasingly also historically attested and sociolinguistically described, the study of morphosyntactic variation as an area of language that seems to remain quite stable under settlement conditions, and the comparative study of present-day variability that indicates the breadth (and limits) of variability. In return, results from the comparative study of World Englishes also have the potential to enrich modern dialectology and sociolinguistics.

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