The Sociolinguistics of Grammar

Editors

Tor A. Åfarli | NTNU Trondheim

Brit Mæhlum | NTNU Trondheim

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ISBN 9789027259196 | EUR 99.00 | USD 149.00

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The aim of this book is to investigate and attain new insights on how and to what extent the wider sociolinguistic context of language use and contact impinges on formal grammatical structures. The papers contained in the book approach this important problem from various points of view by focusing on language evolution and change, on multilingualism, language mixing and dialect variation, on spoken language, and on creole languages. Given the theoretical perspectives, methodological focus, and analyses, the book will be of interest to theoretical linguists as well as sociolinguists, from undergraduate students to researchers.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 154] 2014. v, 260 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.154

Table of Contents

Introduction: Language variation, contact, and change in grammar and sociolinguistics

Tor A. Åfarli and Brit Mæhlum | pp. 1–12

Language ecology, language evolution, and the actuation question

Salikoko S. Mufwene | pp. 13–36

Syntactic change: Between universal grammar and fuzzy grammar

Frederick J. Newmeyer | pp. 37–66

Language contact, linguistic variability and the construction of local identities

Leonie Cornips | pp. 67–90

The social side of syntax in multilingual Oslo

Ingvild Nistov and Toril Opsahl | pp. 91–116

The expansion of the Preterit in Rioplatenese Spanish: Contact induced?

Guro Fløgstad | pp. 117–136

Constructing diasystems: Grammatical organisation in bilingual groups

Steffen Höder | pp. 137–152

Syntactic frames and single-word code-switching: A case study of Mandarin Chinese - Norwegian bilingualism

Tor A. Åfarli and Fufen Jin | pp. 153–170

Norwegian discourse ellipses in the left periphery – interacting structural and semantic restrictions

Mari Nygård | pp. 171–190

The myth of creole “exceptionalism”

Derek Bickerton | pp. 191–202

Some notes on bare noun phrases in Haitian Creole and Gùngbè: A transatlantic Sprachbund perspective

Enoch Oladé Aboh and Michel DeGraff | pp. 203–236

Coding in time: On the historical character of linguistic knowledge

Frans Gregersen | pp. 237–258

Index | pp. 259–260

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