The sociolinguistics of grammar / edited by Tor A. Åfarlí, Brit Maehlum, NTNU Trondheim.

Other author Åfarli, Tor A.
Other author Mæhlum, Brit, 1957-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; Phiadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Description260 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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SeriesStudies in Language Companion Series (SLCS), 0165-7763 ; volume 154
Contents Introduction: language variation, contact, and change in grammar and sociolinguistics / Tor A. Åfarli & Brit Mæhlum -- Language ecology, language evolution and the actuation question / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- Syntactic change: Between Universal Grammar and Fuzzy Grammar / Frederick J. Newmeyer -- Language contact, linguistic variability and the construction of local identities / Leonie Cornips -- The social side of syntax in multilingual Oslo / Ingvild Nistov & Toril Opsah -- The expansion of the preterit in Rioplatenese Spanish: Contact induced? / Guro Fløgstad -- Constructing diasystems: grammatical organisation in bilingual groups / Steffen Höder -- Syntactic frames and single-word code-switching: A case study of Mandarin Chinese - Norwegian bilingualism / Tor A. Åfarli & Fufen Jin -- -- Norwegian discourse ellipses in the left periphery: interacting structural and semantic restrictions / Mari Nygård -- The myth of Creole "exceptionalism" / Derek Bickerton -- Some notes on bare noun phrases in Haitian Creole and Gùngbè: A transatlantic Sprachbund perspective / Enoch Aboh & Michel DeGraff -- Coding in time: On the historical character of linguistic knowledge / Frans Gregersen.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2013049280
ISBN9789027259196 (Hb : alk. paper)

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