Dialectology meets typology : dialect grammar from a cross-linguistic perspective /

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Imprint:Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2004.
Description:vi, 541 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 153
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5174783
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Other authors / contributors:Kortmann, Bernd, 1960-
ISBN:3110179490 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Bernd Kortmann
  • Dialectology and typology - An integrative perspective / Walter Bisang
  • Local markedness as a heuristic tool in dialectology: The case of amn't / Lieselotte Anderwald
  • Non-standard evidence in syntactic typology - Methodological remarks on the use of dialect data vs spoken language data / Peter Auer
  • The typology of motion and posture verbs: A variationist account / Raphael Berthele
  • Dynamic typology and vernacular universals / J. K. Chambers
  • Definite articles in Scandinavian: Competing grammaticalization processes in standard and non-standard varieties / Osten Dahl
  • Person marking in Dutch dialects / Gunther de Vogelaer
  • A typology of relative clauses in German dialects / Jurg Fleischer
  • Do as a tense and aspect marker in varieties of English / Bernd Kortmann
  • Typology, dialectology and the structure of complementation in Romani / Yaron Matras
  • Problems for typology: Perfects and resultatives in spoken and non-standard English and Russian / Jim Miller
  • Comparing grammatical variation phenomena in non-standard English and Low German dialects from a typological perspective / Gunter Rohdenburg
  • On three types of dialect variation and their implications for linguistic theory. Evidence from verb clusters in Swiss German dialects / Guido Seiler
  • Substrate, superstrate and universals: Perfect constructions in Irish English / Peter Siemund
  • The impact of language contact and social structure on linguistic structure: Focus on the dialects of modern Greek / Peter Trudgill
  • Jespersen's cycle and the interaction of predicate and quantifier negation in Flemish / Johan van der Auwera and Annemie Neuckermans
  • "Gendered" pronouns in English dialects - A typological perspective / Susanne Wagner
  • Population linguistics on a micro-scale. Lessons to be learnt from Baltic and Slavic dialects in contact / Bjorn Wiemer.