Explanations in Sociosyntactic Variation

ISBN-13: 9781108492843 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 228 str.

Tanya Karoli Christensen; Torben Juel Jensen

Opis

New perspectives on how and why syntax varies between and within speakers, focusing on explaining theoretical backgrounds and methods.

Spis treści

1. When syntactic variables are compared Sali Tagliamonte; 2. Mapping syntax and the sociolinguistic monitor Jennifer Smith, Sophie Holmes-Elliott; 3. A Columbia School perspective on explanation in morphosyntactic variation Ricardo Otheguy, Naomi Lapidus Shin; 4. On the inevitability of social meaning and ideology in accounts of syntactic change: Evidence from pronoun competition in Netherlandic Dutch Stefan Grondelaers Paul van Gent , and Roeland van Hout; 5. About the predictability of social stratification of syntactic variants Leonie Cornips; 6. When variants lack semantic equivalence: Adverbial subclause word order Tanya Karoli Christensen Torben Juel Jensen; Index.