Sociolinguistic And Typological Perspectives On Language Variation
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Sociolinguistic and Typological Perspectives on Language Variation
Author: Silvia Ballarè
language: en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date: 2023-10-04
Linguistic variation, loosely defined as the wholesale processes whereby patterns of language structures exhibit divergent distributions within and across languages, has traditionally been the object of research of at least two branches of linguistics: variationist sociolinguistics and linguistic typology. In spite of their similar research agendas, the two approaches have only rarely converged in the description and interpretation of variation. While a number of studies attempting to address at least aspects of this relationship have appeared in recent years, a principled discussion on how the two disciplines may interact has not yet been carried out in a programmatic way. This volume aims to fill this gap and offers a cross-disciplinary venue for discussing the bridging between sociolinguistic and typological research from various angles, with the ultimate goal of laying out the methodological and conceptual foundations of an integrated research agenda for the study of linguistic variation.
Perspectives on Variation
Based on presentations made at the meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea held in Leuven in 2001, the 14 contributions in this text illustrate the ongoing evolution of the field of linguistic variation and highlight the interactions between its sociolinguistic, historical and comparative subfields. A sampling of topics: Europe's sociolinguistic unity, inflection variation in Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch, experience and conceptualization in the modern English lexicon of LOVE, the role of semasiological profiles in merger discontinuations, development and motivation of marked plural forms in German, the magic of gender assignment, cleft constructions in French and Spanish, and the lexicalization of speech act evaluations in German, English, and Dutch. Annotation :2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Variation in Indonesian Sign Language
Author: Nick Palfreyman
language: en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date: 2019-01-29
This pioneering work on Indonesian Sign Language (BISINDO) explores the linguistic and social factors that lie behind variation in the grammatical domains of negation and completion. Using a corpus of spontaneous data from signers in the cities of Solo and Makassar, Palfreyman applies an innovative blend of methods from sign language typology and Variationist Sociolinguistics, with findings that have important implications for our understanding of grammaticalisation in sign languages. The book will be of interest to linguists and sociolinguists, including those without prior experience of sign language research, and to all who are curious about the history of Indonesia’s urban sign community. Nick Palfreyman is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies (iSLanDS), University of Central Lancashire.