Editors:	Kopf, Kristin Weber, Thilo
Title:	Free variation in grammar : empirical and theoretical approaches
Online publication date:	3-Nov-2023
Year of first publication:	2023
Language:	english
Abstract:	Recent years have seen a growing interest in grammatical variation, a core explanandum of grammatical theory. The present volume explores questions that are fundamental to this line of research: First, the question of whether variation can always and completely be explained by intra- or extra-linguistic predictors, or whether there is a certain amount of unpredictable – or ‘free’ – grammatical variation. Second, the question of what implications the (in-)existence of free variation would hold for our theoretical models and the empirical study of grammar. The volume provides the first dedicated book-length treatment of this long-standing topic. Following an introductory chapter by the editors, it contains ten case studies on potentially free variation in morphology and syntax drawn from Germanic, Romance, Uralic and Mayan.
DDC:	400 Sprache 400 Language 420 Englisch 420 English 430 Deutsch 430 Germanic 439 Andere germanische Sprachen 439 Other Germanic languages 440 Französisch 440 Romance languages
Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department:	FB 05 Philosophie und Philologie
Place:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-9650
Version:	Published version
Publication type:	Sammelband
License:	CC BY
Information on rights of use:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Extent:	352 Seiten
Publisher:	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publisher place:	Amsterdam u.a.
Issue date:	2023
ISBN:	978-90-272-4933-3
Publisher DOI:	10.1075/slcs.234
Appears in collections:	DFG-491381577-G