Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (Belgium KU Leuven), Jason Grafmiller (University of Birmingham)

Comparative Variation Analysis

Grammatical Alternations in World Englishes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Taking an interdisciplinary stance, this pioneering book shows what we can learn about the grammatical choices that people make based on both observational and experimental data. It conducts detailed state-of-the-art analyses, and discusses the findings within the context of current theoretical models of grammatical variation in World Englishes.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Language Variation and Change
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781108491563
• ISBN-10: 1108491561
• Artikelnr.: 67861667

Autorenporträt

Benedikt Szmrecsanyi is Professor of Linguistics at KU Leuven (Belgium). His research interests include language variation and its interfaces with typology, geolinguistics, complexity theory, and psycholinguistics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Grammatical and syntactic variation
3. World Englishes and dialect typology
4. The data
5. Alternation-by-alternation analysis
6. Distances, similarities, and coherence
7. Experimental corroboration
8. Where are we now, and where to next?.