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The
Sociolinguistics of Grammar
The Sociolinguistics of Grammar
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Tor A. Åfarli
Åfarli, Tor A.
Tor A.
Åfarli
NTNU Trondheim
07
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B01
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JB code
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Functional linguistics
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Historical linguistics
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Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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Theoretical linguistics
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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.
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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.
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Introduction
Introduction
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Language variation, contact, and change in grammar and sociolinguistics
Language variation, contact, and change in grammar and sociolinguistics
1
A01
01
JB code
264209160
Tor A. Åfarli
Åfarli, Tor A.
Tor A.
Åfarli
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/264209160
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A01
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Mæhlum
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Language ecology, language evolution, and the actuation question
Language ecology, language evolution, and the actuation question
1
A01
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JB code
42209162
Salikoko S. Mufwene
Mufwene, Salikoko S.
Salikoko S.
Mufwene
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https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/42209162
01
eng
30
00
I argue in this essay that from a phylogenetic perspective human languages emerged as communicative technologies responding to various ecological pressures experienced by the hominine species during its protracted evolution. The most important of these pressures were cognitive and social, notwithstanding the changing physical ecologies in which hominines have evolved and about which they have wanted to communicate. This adaptive process involved the domestication of the anatomy by the mind as it too evolved from more primitive forms to its current level of complexity and sophistication. The mind has coopted the most suitable parts of the anatomy to generate productive systems that are easy to learn, process, and adapt to the hominines’ increasing cognitive capacity to satisfy the ever-changing communicative pressures they experienced. One may also argue that, overall, human languages evolved by successive exaptations of the anatomy and of extant means of communication to produce linguistic systems that would meet current and new communicative needs at different stages of hominine evolution. However, the reader is also referred to Mufwene (2013b), where the emergence of the mechanics of the linguistic technology is explained in more detail.
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Syntactic change
Syntactic change
01
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Between universal grammar and fuzzy grammar
Between universal grammar and fuzzy grammar
1
A01
01
JB code
751209163
Frederick J. Newmeyer
Newmeyer, Frederick J.
Frederick J.
Newmeyer
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/751209163
01
eng
30
00
Two diametrically opposed positions on syntactic change have wide currency in the literature. The first is the classical position of mainstream formal linguistics. In this view, UG-based strategies lead to a dramatically rapid cascade of seemingly unrelated diachronic changes. The second view has been developed primarily in the context of functional linguistics and associated statistical approaches. In this way of looking at things, diachronic change is ‘fuzzy’, in the sense that syntactic categories and constructions undergo a gradual evolution. In this paper I argue that neither position is correct. Syntactic change is discrete and abrupt, as is maintained by most formal syntacticians. However, we must abandon the view that such change can be interpreted in terms of UG-provided parameters or cues.
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slcs.154.04cor
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10.1075/slcs.154.04cor
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90
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01
04
Language contact, linguistic variability and the construction of local identities
Language contact, linguistic variability and the construction of local identities
1
A01
01
JB code
345209164
Leonie Cornips
Cornips, Leonie
Leonie
Cornips
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/345209164
01
eng
30
00
This paper focuses on “old” bidialectal and “new” bilingual language contact settings in the Netherlands combining insights from theoretical linguistics and sociolinguistics. It highlights some surprising conditions for language variation, namely the observation that in the bidialectal contact situation when a dialect feature (inalienable possessive dative construction) may disappear from the local dialect(s) it may be picked up as a feature of a new regional standard. In the bilingual contact situation, for some bilinguals the overgeneralization of the common definite determiner indexes “streetwise” identity formation. In sum, contact situations in bidialectal communities may lead to different linguistic outcomes but have similar social meanings whereas in bilingual communities similar linguistic outcomes are only meaningful for some speakers and not for others.
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slcs.154.05nis
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10.1075/slcs.154.05nis
91
116
26
Article
5
01
04
The
social side of syntax in multilingual Oslo
The social side of syntax in multilingual Oslo
1
A01
01
JB code
76209165
Ingvild Nistov
Nistov, Ingvild
Ingvild
Nistov
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/76209165
2
A01
01
JB code
192209166
Toril Opsahl
Opsahl, Toril
Toril
Opsahl
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/192209166
01
eng
30
00
This chapter is concerned with the social side of syntax, which is crucial for examining mechanisms of contact-induced change. The linguistic feature we shed light upon is violations of the syntactic V2 constraint, which has been observed and described as a feature of multiethnic youth varieties in several European urban areas. Drawing on conversational data from Oslo, Norway, we pursue an intuition that multilingualism may be exploited also at a symbolic level in urban areas. L2 usage may have played a role indirectly, by providing input to the feature pool and as a ground for accommodation strategies. The V2 violations may have developed from interactional accommodation to intentional usage imitating in- group prestigious patterns that index coolness, toughness and “foreignness”.
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01
JB code
slcs.154.06flo
06
10.1075/slcs.154.06flo
117
136
20
Article
6
01
04
The
expansion of the Preterit in Rioplatenese Spanish
The expansion of the Preterit in Rioplatenese Spanish
01
04
Contact induced?
Contact induced?
1
A01
01
JB code
789209167
Guro Nore Fløgstad
Fløgstad, Guro Nore
Guro Nore
Fløgstad
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/789209167
01
eng
30
00
A major morphosyntactic change has taken place in Spanish spoken in Buenos Aires, Argentina (henceforth Rioplatense). While the Preterit coexisted with a Perfect until the turn of the 20th century, it is shown that this opposition gradually has been erased in the language of young speakers in this sample. Today, the Preterit functions as a perfective which also encompasses current relevance contexts, previously expressed through the Perfect. Such a finding is discussed in the light of grammaticalization theory (e.g. Bybee et al. 1994), which emphasizes how the expansion of a perfect and replacement of the preterit is typical of grammaticalization and of Romance languages in particular. In addition, it is argued that the change did not occur due to contact, neither (1) as the result of contact with speakers of a language with a similar system (Sicilian Italian) nor (2) as a post-contact phenomenon, despite Buenos Aires being a high-contact society at the time of the initiation of the change.
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01
JB code
slcs.154.07hod
06
10.1075/slcs.154.07hod
137
152
16
Article
7
01
04
Constructing diasystems
Constructing diasystems
01
04
Grammatical organisation in bilingual groups
Grammatical organisation in bilingual groups
1
A01
01
JB code
606209168
Steffen Höder
Höder, Steffen
Steffen
Höder
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/606209168
01
eng
30
00
From a global and historical perspective, multilingualism or at least multilectalism is the rule rather than the exception. However, linguistic theory continues to focus on the idea of a prototypically coherent, static, and monolingual language system. A more realistic approach can set out from the notion of ‘diasystems’, i.e. linguistic systems including more than one variety. Apart from being theoretical constructs, diasystems are also an important component of multilectal speakers’ linguistic knowledge. Within a usage-based construction grammar approach, this paper argues that multilectal speakers (re-)organise their grammars by generalisation over individual constructions and across language boundaries. Therefore, the multilectal system can be modelled as an inventory of constructions that are partly language-specific and partly unspecified for language.
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01
JB code
slcs.154.08afa
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10.1075/slcs.154.08afa
153
170
18
Article
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01
04
Syntactic frames and single-word code-switching
Syntactic frames and single-word code-switching
01
04
A
case study of Mandarin Chinese - Norwegian bilingualism
A case study of Mandarin Chinese - Norwegian bilingualism
1
A01
01
JB code
97209169
Tor A. Åfarli
Åfarli, Tor A.
Tor A.
Åfarli
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/97209169
2
A01
01
JB code
178209170
Fufen Jin
Jin, Fufen
Fufen
Jin
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/178209170
01
eng
30
00
Mainstream core grammar theory, still to some extent relying on the idealized speaker in a homogeneous speech community, is ill equipped to handle different kinds of periphery data, like code-switching data and other types of language mixing data. In this paper, we defend a model of grammar that we argue is able to handle different types of both core and periphery data. Empirically, we focus on single-word code-switching data obtained from a small corpus of the Chinese production of a bilingual Mandarin Chinese – Norwegian child. We develop the beginnings of a generative frame model of grammar exploiting insights both from late insertion neo-constructional models and from code-switching theories assuming a matrix – embedded language asymmetry. We will be paying special attention to the lexicon – syntax interface.
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slcs.154.09nyg
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10.1075/slcs.154.09nyg
171
190
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01
04
Norwegian discourse ellipses in the left periphery - interacting structural and semantic restrictions
Norwegian discourse ellipses in the left periphery – interacting structural and semantic restrictions
1
A01
01
JB code
882209171
Mari Nygård
Nygård, Mari
Mari
Nygård
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/882209171
01
eng
30
00
In Norwegian discourse ellipses, elements in the left edge of the clause are most frequently elided. Yet, a topic drop analysis is argued to be empirically too narrow, since occasionally the whole C-domain is silent. I propose an analysis which combines semantic and structural restrictions: Ellipsis must obey the semantic recoverability condition. On the structural side, the whole C-domain can be unrealized only when all the elements are part of the same Agree-relation. If the constituent in (spec,CP) is not part of this agreement system, e.g. if the object is topicalized, ellipsis of the whole domain is illicit. Ellipsis of only (spec,CP) is possible in any case, given that the semantic identity criteria are fulfilled.
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01
JB code
slcs.154.10bic
06
10.1075/slcs.154.10bic
191
202
12
Article
10
01
04
The
myth of creole "exceptionalism"
The myth of creole “exceptionalism”
1
A01
01
JB code
475209172
Derek Bickerton
Bickerton, Derek
Derek
Bickerton
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/475209172
01
eng
30
00
Recently claims that the universalist approach to creole languages treats them as “exceptional” are misconceived. The only thing “exceptional” about creoles is the sociohistorical context within which creoles originated. Creoles utilize the same processes that are deployed during “normal” language acquisition: children form sentences according to inborn algorithms, then adjust the results to conform to structures encountered in input. “Normal” and creole-forming situations differ only in that in the latter, with reduced input, less adjustment is required. Since the same strategies apply wherever input falls below optimal, it is unsurprising that similar phenomena occur in “ordinary” language change and creolization. However, in creolization changes are simultaneous, and exact patterns of change repeat across multiple languages, while changes elsewhere are stochastic.
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01
JB code
slcs.154.11abo
06
10.1075/slcs.154.11abo
203
236
34
Article
11
01
04
Some notes on bare noun phrases in Haitian Creole and Gungbe
Some notes on bare noun phrases in Haitian Creole and Gùngbè
01
04
A
transatlantic Sprachbund perspective
A transatlantic Sprachbund perspective
1
A01
01
JB code
968209173
Enoch O. Aboh
Aboh, Enoch O.
Enoch O.
Aboh
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/968209173
2
A01
01
JB code
905209174
Michel DeGraff
DeGraff, Michel
Michel
DeGraff
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/905209174
01
eng
30
00
This paper discusses noun phrases in Haitian Creole (HC), a French-derived Creole, and in Gungbe, a Gbe language. These languages exhibit “bare noun phrases” (BNPs) in a wider range of positions than in French, English and the other most commonly studied Romance and Germanic languages. Studies on the formation of HC show that many of the creators of the earliest Creole varieties in 17th-century Saint-Domingue were native speakers of Niger-Congo languages including Gbe language. We believe that by close analysis of specific domains of the Creole (e.g. BNPs) and by comparing these patterns to their analogues in the languages in contact during the emergence of the Creole, we can better understand how Universal Grammar regulates the emergence of new varieties out of language contact.
01
01
JB code
slcs.154.12gre
06
10.1075/slcs.154.12gre
237
258
22
Article
12
01
04
Coding in time
Coding in time
01
04
On the historical character of linguistic knowledge
On the historical character of linguistic knowledge
1
A01
01
JB code
591209175
Frans Gregersen
Gregersen, Frans
Frans
Gregersen
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/591209175
01
eng
30
00
In this paper, I argue that linguistics is a historical science in more than one sense: Not only is the object, language, embedded in time, but so is the study of it. This has consequences for our conception of language change. A central result of previous sociolinguistic analyses of spoken Copenhagen Danish, starting with Brink & Lund 1975, is that during the latter half of the 19th century the common European low back vowel (a) was differentiated in the Copenhagen speech community into at least four different vowel qualities all of them bearing both linguistic and sociolinguistic information. I present evidence from an unbroken chain of Copenhagen informants ranging from birth years 1905 until 1962–71. Various sections of this sample have been studied by different researchers using auditory classification of variants, and the total sample has been coded once more by the LANCHART centre. The analysis shows that auditory coding reveals the same patterns of differences between sociologically characterized groups but the relative figures classified as belonging to the various variants diverge quite dramatically and seem to be dependent on the age of the coder and the point in time at which the coding takes place. I suggest explanations for these facts and discuss whether this is a problem for the validity of sociolinguistic research or perhaps an inescapable condition for research within the language sciences.
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slcs.154.13ind
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10.1075/slcs.154.13ind
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260
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Index
Index
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Studies in Language Companion Series
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The
Sociolinguistics of Grammar
The Sociolinguistics of Grammar
1
B01
01
JB code
846197976
Tor A. Åfarli
Åfarli, Tor A.
Tor A.
Åfarli
NTNU Trondheim
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/846197976
2
B01
01
JB code
287197977
Brit Mæhlum
Mæhlum, Brit
Brit
Mæhlum
NTNU Trondheim
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/287197977
01
eng
11
265
03
03
v
03
00
260
03
01
23
306.44
03
2014
P40.5.S57
04
Sociolinguistics.
04
Socialization.
04
Grammar, Comparative and general.
04
Generative grammar.
04
Linguistic change.
04
Historical linguistics.
10
LAN009000
12
CFB
24
JB code
LIN.CONT
Contact Linguistics
24
JB code
LIN.CREO
Creole studies
24
JB code
LIN.FUNCT
Functional linguistics
24
JB code
LIN.HL
Historical linguistics
24
JB code
LIN.SOCIO
Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
24
JB code
LIN.THEOR
Theoretical linguistics
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06
02
00
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.
03
00
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.
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Introduction
Introduction
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Language variation, contact, and change in grammar and sociolinguistics
Language variation, contact, and change in grammar and sociolinguistics
1
A01
01
JB code
264209160
Tor A. Åfarli
Åfarli, Tor A.
Tor A.
Åfarli
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/264209160
2
A01
01
JB code
621209161
Brit Mæhlum
Mæhlum, Brit
Brit
Mæhlum
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/621209161
01
eng
01
01
JB code
slcs.154.02muf
06
10.1075/slcs.154.02muf
13
36
24
Article
2
01
04
Language ecology, language evolution, and the actuation question
Language ecology, language evolution, and the actuation question
1
A01
01
JB code
42209162
Salikoko S. Mufwene
Mufwene, Salikoko S.
Salikoko S.
Mufwene
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/42209162
01
eng
30
00
I argue in this essay that from a phylogenetic perspective human languages emerged as communicative technologies responding to various ecological pressures experienced by the hominine species during its protracted evolution. The most important of these pressures were cognitive and social, notwithstanding the changing physical ecologies in which hominines have evolved and about which they have wanted to communicate. This adaptive process involved the domestication of the anatomy by the mind as it too evolved from more primitive forms to its current level of complexity and sophistication. The mind has coopted the most suitable parts of the anatomy to generate productive systems that are easy to learn, process, and adapt to the hominines’ increasing cognitive capacity to satisfy the ever-changing communicative pressures they experienced. One may also argue that, overall, human languages evolved by successive exaptations of the anatomy and of extant means of communication to produce linguistic systems that would meet current and new communicative needs at different stages of hominine evolution. However, the reader is also referred to Mufwene (2013b), where the emergence of the mechanics of the linguistic technology is explained in more detail.
01
01
JB code
slcs.154.03new
06
10.1075/slcs.154.03new
37
66
30
Article
3
01
04
Syntactic change
Syntactic change
01
04
Between universal grammar and fuzzy grammar
Between universal grammar and fuzzy grammar
1
A01
01
JB code
751209163
Frederick J. Newmeyer
Newmeyer, Frederick J.
Frederick J.
Newmeyer
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/751209163
01
eng
30
00
Two diametrically opposed positions on syntactic change have wide currency in the literature. The first is the classical position of mainstream formal linguistics. In this view, UG-based strategies lead to a dramatically rapid cascade of seemingly unrelated diachronic changes. The second view has been developed primarily in the context of functional linguistics and associated statistical approaches. In this way of looking at things, diachronic change is ‘fuzzy’, in the sense that syntactic categories and constructions undergo a gradual evolution. In this paper I argue that neither position is correct. Syntactic change is discrete and abrupt, as is maintained by most formal syntacticians. However, we must abandon the view that such change can be interpreted in terms of UG-provided parameters or cues.
01
01
JB code
slcs.154.04cor
06
10.1075/slcs.154.04cor
67
90
24
Article
4
01
04
Language contact, linguistic variability and the construction of local identities
Language contact, linguistic variability and the construction of local identities
1
A01
01
JB code
345209164
Leonie Cornips
Cornips, Leonie
Leonie
Cornips
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/345209164
01
eng
30
00
This paper focuses on “old” bidialectal and “new” bilingual language contact settings in the Netherlands combining insights from theoretical linguistics and sociolinguistics. It highlights some surprising conditions for language variation, namely the observation that in the bidialectal contact situation when a dialect feature (inalienable possessive dative construction) may disappear from the local dialect(s) it may be picked up as a feature of a new regional standard. In the bilingual contact situation, for some bilinguals the overgeneralization of the common definite determiner indexes “streetwise” identity formation. In sum, contact situations in bidialectal communities may lead to different linguistic outcomes but have similar social meanings whereas in bilingual communities similar linguistic outcomes are only meaningful for some speakers and not for others.
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01
JB code
slcs.154.05nis
06
10.1075/slcs.154.05nis
91
116
26
Article
5
01
04
The
social side of syntax in multilingual Oslo
The social side of syntax in multilingual Oslo
1
A01
01
JB code
76209165
Ingvild Nistov
Nistov, Ingvild
Ingvild
Nistov
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/76209165
2
A01
01
JB code
192209166
Toril Opsahl
Opsahl, Toril
Toril
Opsahl
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/192209166
01
eng
30
00
This chapter is concerned with the social side of syntax, which is crucial for examining mechanisms of contact-induced change. The linguistic feature we shed light upon is violations of the syntactic V2 constraint, which has been observed and described as a feature of multiethnic youth varieties in several European urban areas. Drawing on conversational data from Oslo, Norway, we pursue an intuition that multilingualism may be exploited also at a symbolic level in urban areas. L2 usage may have played a role indirectly, by providing input to the feature pool and as a ground for accommodation strategies. The V2 violations may have developed from interactional accommodation to intentional usage imitating in- group prestigious patterns that index coolness, toughness and “foreignness”.
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01
JB code
slcs.154.06flo
06
10.1075/slcs.154.06flo
117
136
20
Article
6
01
04
The
expansion of the Preterit in Rioplatenese Spanish
The expansion of the Preterit in Rioplatenese Spanish
01
04
Contact induced?
Contact induced?
1
A01
01
JB code
789209167
Guro Nore Fløgstad
Fløgstad, Guro Nore
Guro Nore
Fløgstad
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/789209167
01
eng
30
00
A major morphosyntactic change has taken place in Spanish spoken in Buenos Aires, Argentina (henceforth Rioplatense). While the Preterit coexisted with a Perfect until the turn of the 20th century, it is shown that this opposition gradually has been erased in the language of young speakers in this sample. Today, the Preterit functions as a perfective which also encompasses current relevance contexts, previously expressed through the Perfect. Such a finding is discussed in the light of grammaticalization theory (e.g. Bybee et al. 1994), which emphasizes how the expansion of a perfect and replacement of the preterit is typical of grammaticalization and of Romance languages in particular. In addition, it is argued that the change did not occur due to contact, neither (1) as the result of contact with speakers of a language with a similar system (Sicilian Italian) nor (2) as a post-contact phenomenon, despite Buenos Aires being a high-contact society at the time of the initiation of the change.
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01
JB code
slcs.154.07hod
06
10.1075/slcs.154.07hod
137
152
16
Article
7
01
04
Constructing diasystems
Constructing diasystems
01
04
Grammatical organisation in bilingual groups
Grammatical organisation in bilingual groups
1
A01
01
JB code
606209168
Steffen Höder
Höder, Steffen
Steffen
Höder
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/606209168
01
eng
30
00
From a global and historical perspective, multilingualism or at least multilectalism is the rule rather than the exception. However, linguistic theory continues to focus on the idea of a prototypically coherent, static, and monolingual language system. A more realistic approach can set out from the notion of ‘diasystems’, i.e. linguistic systems including more than one variety. Apart from being theoretical constructs, diasystems are also an important component of multilectal speakers’ linguistic knowledge. Within a usage-based construction grammar approach, this paper argues that multilectal speakers (re-)organise their grammars by generalisation over individual constructions and across language boundaries. Therefore, the multilectal system can be modelled as an inventory of constructions that are partly language-specific and partly unspecified for language.
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01
JB code
slcs.154.08afa
06
10.1075/slcs.154.08afa
153
170
18
Article
8
01
04
Syntactic frames and single-word code-switching
Syntactic frames and single-word code-switching
01
04
A
case study of Mandarin Chinese - Norwegian bilingualism
A case study of Mandarin Chinese - Norwegian bilingualism
1
A01
01
JB code
97209169
Tor A. Åfarli
Åfarli, Tor A.
Tor A.
Åfarli
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/97209169
2
A01
01
JB code
178209170
Fufen Jin
Jin, Fufen
Fufen
Jin
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/178209170
01
eng
30
00
Mainstream core grammar theory, still to some extent relying on the idealized speaker in a homogeneous speech community, is ill equipped to handle different kinds of periphery data, like code-switching data and other types of language mixing data. In this paper, we defend a model of grammar that we argue is able to handle different types of both core and periphery data. Empirically, we focus on single-word code-switching data obtained from a small corpus of the Chinese production of a bilingual Mandarin Chinese – Norwegian child. We develop the beginnings of a generative frame model of grammar exploiting insights both from late insertion neo-constructional models and from code-switching theories assuming a matrix – embedded language asymmetry. We will be paying special attention to the lexicon – syntax interface.
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01
JB code
slcs.154.09nyg
06
10.1075/slcs.154.09nyg
171
190
20
Article
9
01
04
Norwegian discourse ellipses in the left periphery - interacting structural and semantic restrictions
Norwegian discourse ellipses in the left periphery – interacting structural and semantic restrictions
1
A01
01
JB code
882209171
Mari Nygård
Nygård, Mari
Mari
Nygård
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/882209171
01
eng
30
00
In Norwegian discourse ellipses, elements in the left edge of the clause are most frequently elided. Yet, a topic drop analysis is argued to be empirically too narrow, since occasionally the whole C-domain is silent. I propose an analysis which combines semantic and structural restrictions: Ellipsis must obey the semantic recoverability condition. On the structural side, the whole C-domain can be unrealized only when all the elements are part of the same Agree-relation. If the constituent in (spec,CP) is not part of this agreement system, e.g. if the object is topicalized, ellipsis of the whole domain is illicit. Ellipsis of only (spec,CP) is possible in any case, given that the semantic identity criteria are fulfilled.
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01
JB code
slcs.154.10bic
06
10.1075/slcs.154.10bic
191
202
12
Article
10
01
04
The
myth of creole "exceptionalism"
The myth of creole “exceptionalism”
1
A01
01
JB code
475209172
Derek Bickerton
Bickerton, Derek
Derek
Bickerton
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/475209172
01
eng
30
00
Recently claims that the universalist approach to creole languages treats them as “exceptional” are misconceived. The only thing “exceptional” about creoles is the sociohistorical context within which creoles originated. Creoles utilize the same processes that are deployed during “normal” language acquisition: children form sentences according to inborn algorithms, then adjust the results to conform to structures encountered in input. “Normal” and creole-forming situations differ only in that in the latter, with reduced input, less adjustment is required. Since the same strategies apply wherever input falls below optimal, it is unsurprising that similar phenomena occur in “ordinary” language change and creolization. However, in creolization changes are simultaneous, and exact patterns of change repeat across multiple languages, while changes elsewhere are stochastic.
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01
JB code
slcs.154.11abo
06
10.1075/slcs.154.11abo
203
236
34
Article
11
01
04
Some notes on bare noun phrases in Haitian Creole and Gungbe
Some notes on bare noun phrases in Haitian Creole and Gùngbè
01
04
A
transatlantic Sprachbund perspective
A transatlantic Sprachbund perspective
1
A01
01
JB code
968209173
Enoch O. Aboh
Aboh, Enoch O.
Enoch O.
Aboh
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/968209173
2
A01
01
JB code
905209174
Michel DeGraff
DeGraff, Michel
Michel
DeGraff
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/905209174
01
eng
30
00
This paper discusses noun phrases in Haitian Creole (HC), a French-derived Creole, and in Gungbe, a Gbe language. These languages exhibit “bare noun phrases” (BNPs) in a wider range of positions than in French, English and the other most commonly studied Romance and Germanic languages. Studies on the formation of HC show that many of the creators of the earliest Creole varieties in 17th-century Saint-Domingue were native speakers of Niger-Congo languages including Gbe language. We believe that by close analysis of specific domains of the Creole (e.g. BNPs) and by comparing these patterns to their analogues in the languages in contact during the emergence of the Creole, we can better understand how Universal Grammar regulates the emergence of new varieties out of language contact.
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01
JB code
slcs.154.12gre
06
10.1075/slcs.154.12gre
237
258
22
Article
12
01
04
Coding in time
Coding in time
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04
On the historical character of linguistic knowledge
On the historical character of linguistic knowledge
1
A01
01
JB code
591209175
Frans Gregersen
Gregersen, Frans
Frans
Gregersen
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/591209175
01
eng
30
00
In this paper, I argue that linguistics is a historical science in more than one sense: Not only is the object, language, embedded in time, but so is the study of it. This has consequences for our conception of language change. A central result of previous sociolinguistic analyses of spoken Copenhagen Danish, starting with Brink & Lund 1975, is that during the latter half of the 19th century the common European low back vowel (a) was differentiated in the Copenhagen speech community into at least four different vowel qualities all of them bearing both linguistic and sociolinguistic information. I present evidence from an unbroken chain of Copenhagen informants ranging from birth years 1905 until 1962–71. Various sections of this sample have been studied by different researchers using auditory classification of variants, and the total sample has been coded once more by the LANCHART centre. The analysis shows that auditory coding reveals the same patterns of differences between sociologically characterized groups but the relative figures classified as belonging to the various variants diverge quite dramatically and seem to be dependent on the age of the coder and the point in time at which the coding takes place. I suggest explanations for these facts and discuss whether this is a problem for the validity of sociolinguistic research or perhaps an inescapable condition for research within the language sciences.
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slcs.154.13ind
06
10.1075/slcs.154.13ind
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260
2
Article
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Index
Index
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JBENJAMINS
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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2014
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SLCS
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0165-7763
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154.00
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Studies in Language Companion Series
Studies in Language Companion Series
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The
Sociolinguistics of Grammar
The Sociolinguistics of Grammar
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B01
01
JB code
846197976
Tor A. Åfarli
Åfarli, Tor A.
Tor A.
Åfarli
NTNU Trondheim
2
B01
01
JB code
287197977
Brit Mæhlum
Mæhlum, Brit
Brit
Mæhlum
NTNU Trondheim
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24
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LIN.CONT
Contact Linguistics
24
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LIN.CREO
Creole studies
24
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LIN.FUNCT
Functional linguistics
24
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LIN.HL
Historical linguistics
24
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LIN.SOCIO
Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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Theoretical linguistics
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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.
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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.
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slcs.154.01int
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10.1075/slcs.154.01int
1
12
12
Article
1
01
04
Introduction
Introduction
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04
Language variation, contact, and change in grammar and sociolinguistics
Language variation, contact, and change in grammar and sociolinguistics
1
A01
01
JB code
264209160
Tor A. Åfarli
Åfarli, Tor A.
Tor A.
Åfarli
2
A01
01
JB code
621209161
Brit Mæhlum
Mæhlum, Brit
Brit
Mæhlum
01
01
JB code
slcs.154.02muf
06
10.1075/slcs.154.02muf
13
36
24
Article
2
01
04
Language ecology, language evolution, and the actuation question
Language ecology, language evolution, and the actuation question
1
A01
01
JB code
42209162
Salikoko S. Mufwene
Mufwene, Salikoko S.
Salikoko S.
Mufwene
01
01
JB code
slcs.154.03new
06
10.1075/slcs.154.03new
37
66
30
Article
3
01
04
Syntactic change
Syntactic change
01
04
Between universal grammar and fuzzy grammar
Between universal grammar and fuzzy grammar
1
A01
01
JB code
751209163
Frederick J. Newmeyer
Newmeyer, Frederick J.
Frederick J.
Newmeyer
01
01
JB code
slcs.154.04cor
06
10.1075/slcs.154.04cor
67
90
24
Article
4
01
04
Language contact, linguistic variability and the construction of local identities
Language contact, linguistic variability and the construction of local identities
1
A01
01
JB code
345209164
Leonie Cornips
Cornips, Leonie
Leonie
Cornips
01
01
JB code
slcs.154.05nis
06
10.1075/slcs.154.05nis
91
116
26
Article
5
01
04
The
social side of syntax in multilingual Oslo
The social side of syntax in multilingual Oslo
1
A01
01
JB code
76209165
Ingvild Nistov
Nistov, Ingvild
Ingvild
Nistov
2
A01
01
JB code
192209166
Toril Opsahl
Opsahl, Toril
Toril
Opsahl
01
01
JB code
slcs.154.06flo
06
10.1075/slcs.154.06flo
117
136
20
Article
6
01
04
The
expansion of the Preterit in Rioplatenese Spanish
The expansion of the Preterit in Rioplatenese Spanish
01
04
Contact induced?
Contact induced?
1
A01
01
JB code
789209167
Guro Nore Fløgstad
Fløgstad, Guro Nore
Guro Nore
Fløgstad
01
01
JB code
slcs.154.07hod
06
10.1075/slcs.154.07hod
137
152
16
Article
7
01
04
Constructing diasystems
Constructing diasystems
01
04
Grammatical organisation in bilingual groups
Grammatical organisation in bilingual groups
1
A01
01
JB code
606209168
Steffen Höder
Höder, Steffen
Steffen
Höder
01
01
JB code
slcs.154.08afa
06
10.1075/slcs.154.08afa
153
170
18
Article
8
01
04
Syntactic frames and single-word code-switching
Syntactic frames and single-word code-switching
01
04
A
case study of Mandarin Chinese - Norwegian bilingualism
A case study of Mandarin Chinese - Norwegian bilingualism
1
A01
01
JB code
97209169
Tor A. Åfarli
Åfarli, Tor A.
Tor A.
Åfarli
2
A01
01
JB code
178209170
Fufen Jin
Jin, Fufen
Fufen
Jin
01
01
JB code
slcs.154.09nyg
06
10.1075/slcs.154.09nyg
171
190
20
Article
9
01
04
Norwegian discourse ellipses in the left periphery - interacting structural and semantic restrictions
Norwegian discourse ellipses in the left periphery – interacting structural and semantic restrictions
1
A01
01
JB code
882209171
Mari Nygård
Nygård, Mari
Mari
Nygård
01
01
JB code
slcs.154.10bic
06
10.1075/slcs.154.10bic
191
202
12
Article
10
01
04
The
myth of creole "exceptionalism"
The myth of creole “exceptionalism”
1
A01
01
JB code
475209172
Derek Bickerton
Bickerton, Derek
Derek
Bickerton
01
01
JB code
slcs.154.11abo
06
10.1075/slcs.154.11abo
203
236
34
Article
11
01
04
Some notes on bare noun phrases in Haitian Creole and Gungbe
Some notes on bare noun phrases in Haitian Creole and Gùngbè
01
04
A
transatlantic Sprachbund perspective
A transatlantic Sprachbund perspective
1
A01
01
JB code
968209173
Enoch O. Aboh
Aboh, Enoch O.
Enoch O.
Aboh
2
A01
01
JB code
905209174
Michel DeGraff
DeGraff, Michel
Michel
DeGraff
01
01
JB code
slcs.154.12gre
06
10.1075/slcs.154.12gre
237
258
22
Article
12
01
04
Coding in time
Coding in time
01
04
On the historical character of linguistic knowledge
On the historical character of linguistic knowledge
1
A01
01
JB code
591209175
Frans Gregersen
Gregersen, Frans
Frans
Gregersen
01
01
JB code
slcs.154.13ind
06
10.1075/slcs.154.13ind
259
260
2
Article
13
01
04
Index
Index
01
JB code
JBENJAMINS
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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JB
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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https://benjamins.com
Amsterdam
NL
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
Marketing Department / Karin Plijnaar, Pieter Lamers
onix@benjamins.nl
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20140416
C
2014
John Benjamins
D
2014
John Benjamins
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9789027259196
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