The Sociolinguistics of Grammar

Name: The Sociolinguistics of Grammar
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Tor A. Åfarli Brit Mæhlum(Herausgeber*in)

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Intro
The Sociolinguistics of Grammar
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Language variation, contact and change in grammar and sociolinguistics
Acknowledgements
References
Language ecology, language evolution, and the actuation question
1. Introduction
2. Some consequences of thinking of languages as species
3. Constraints on innovations and exaptations
4. An ecological perspective on the phylogenetic emergence of language
5. Conclusions
References
Syntactic change
1. Introduction
2. An examination of some functionalist theories of language change
2.1 On the gradualness of linguistic change
2.2 Adult grammars and functional forces
2.3 Language change and the role of frequency
3. Against UG-based model of language change
3.1 UG-based approaches to morphosyntactic change and their inherent difficulties
3.2 History of English: Loss of V-to-I, rise of Neg-V, and Adv-V ordering
3.3 History of French: Loss of simple inversion, loss of V2, and loss of null subjects
3.4 History of Scandinavian
3.5 Parameters and processing principles
3.6 Parameters and rules
4. Conclusion
References
Language contact, linguistic variability and the construction of local identities
1. Introduction
2. Long-lasting language contact settings between dialect and Dutch in the Limburg area
2.1 Linguistic properties of the dative inalienable possession construction
3. The social stratification of the dative inalienable possession construction
3.1 The dialect of Montfort
3.2 Dutch of Heerlen
3.3 Place as a social construct: Oppositions in Limburg
3.4 How grammar allows for 'agency': The locus of individual variation
4. Bilingual acquisition of grammatical gender in the Randstad area
4.1 Monolingual acquisition of neuter gender
4.2 Bilingual acquisition of neuter gender
4.3 Overuse of de in process of group identification
4.4 The locus of individual variation
5. Conclusion
References
The social side of syntax in multilingual Oslo
1. Background
2. Scope and goal
3. Data: The Oslo-UPUS-corpus
4. Findings and analyses
4.1 Overall results - interview and peer conversation
4.2 The linguistic context
4.3 The Socio-linguistic context
4.3.1 XSV as a sociolinguistic variable
4.3.2 XSV in interaction
5. The XSV pattern in a language contact perspective
5.1 The multilingual friendship network as a contact scenario
5.2 Emergence: Imperfect L2 learning versus intentional change
5.3 From participant oriented to discourse-oriented code switching
6. Concluding remarks
References
The expansion of the Preterit in Rioplatense Spanish
1. Introduction
1.1 The case in question
1.2 Brief notes on terminology
2. Background
2.1 Rioplatense: Sociolinguistic context
2.2 Previous research on Rioplatense
2.3 Expanding Preterits in other languages
2.4 Grammaticalization theory and source determination
3. Field and method
3.1 Informants and interviews
3.2 Analysis
4. Results
4.1 Preterit and its expansion in numbers
5. Contact?
5.1 Contact with Sicilian
5.2 Buenos Aires
a high contact society? Categorical simplification as a post-contact phenomenon
6. Conclusion
Abbreviations used in glosses:
References
Constructing diasystems
1. The status of multilingualism in grammatical theory
2. Diasystematic Construction Grammar
3. Diasystematic networks in Low and High German
3.1 Background
3.2 Demonstrative pronominal adverbs
3.3 Aspectual pseudo-coordination
4. Conclusion
References
Syntactic frames and single-word code-switching
1. Introduction
2. Outline of a model of grammar
3. Mandarin Chinese - Norwegian single-word code-switching
4. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Norwegian discourse ellipses in the left periphery - interacting structural and semantic restrictions
1. Introduction
2. Ellipsis as economy - The principle of recoverability
3. General characteristics of the C-domain
4. Topic and focus in (spec,CP)
5. Structural restrictions in the left periphery
6. Interacting structural and semantic restrictions
References
Corpora
The Myth of Creole "Exceptionalism"
1. Introduction
2. Creolization and linguistic change
3. Types of language change
4. The continuum of creoles and its pidgin origins
5. Creoles as "contact languages"
6. Creoles as anything BUT "exceptional languages"
APPENDIX A
A BIOLOGICAL PROGRAM FOR LANGUAGE
Syntactic component
Semantic component
Execution of program by children
References
Some notes on bare noun phrases in Haitian Creole and in Gungbe
1. Introduction
2. Some properties of BNPs in Haitian Creole and Gungbe
3. A cross-linguistic sample of BNPs
3.1 A stative-vs-eventive contrast in Haitian Creole and Gungbe
3.2 Haitian Creole and Gungbe in the context of 'bare noun' languages
4. What is the structure of BNPs in Haitian Creole and Gungbe?
4.1 Are BNPs simply Cl(assifier)Ps or Num(ber)Ps?
4.2 Déprez's (2004) plural parameter
4.3 BNPs are DPs
5. Overt functional heads in Haitian Creole and Gungbe noun phrases
5.1 L?´ and l?´ in Gungbe
5.1.1 L?´ in Gungbe
5.1.2 L?´ in Gungbe
5.2 La in Haitian Creole
5.3 Recapitulation and implications of our micro Trans-Atlantic Sprachbund comparisons
6. Implications for language-contact theoretical issues?
References
Coding in time
1. Introduction
2. The J. Normann Jørgensen study and the variable (a)
2.1 The history of Danish (a)
2.2 The design of the Jørgensen 1980 study
2.3 The results of the J. Normann Jørgensen study: What do we know about the short (a)?
3. Another look at (a): The Copenhagen Study in Urban Sociolinguistics (1991)
3.1 Introduction: Generations
3.2 The variants and the coding
3.3 The selection of passages according to style
4. The LANCHART study
4.1 Design and coding practices
4.2 Results
5. Time is on our side
6. Acknowledging historicity while still avoiding radical (historical) relativism
References
Index

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