Antje Dammel (University of Munster) Matthias Eitelmann (University of Mainz) Mirjam Schmuck (University of Mainz)
With most studies on grammatical variation concentrating on the synchronic level, a systematic investigation of long-term grammatical variation within the context of language change, i.e. from a predominantly diachronic perspective, has largely remained a desideratum. The present volume fills this research gap by bringing together nine empirically rich bottom-up case studies on morphological and morphosyntactic variation phenomena in standard and dialect varieties of Indo-European languages (Germanic, Romance, Greek). While variation has often been regarded as merely a transitory...
With most studies on grammatical variation concentrating on the synchronic level, a systematic investigation of long-term grammatical variation within...
