TY - BOOK AU - Dufter,Andreas AU - Fleischer,Jürg AU - Seiler,Guido ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Describing and modeling variation in grammar T2 - Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, AV - P120.V37 D44 2009eb U1 - 417/.2 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Berlin, New York PB - Mouton de Gruyter KW - Language and languages KW - Variation KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10329857 ER -