Morphological Variation

Theoretical and empirical perspectives

Editors

Antje Dammel | University of Münster

Oliver Schallert | LMU Munich

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Morphological variation is a rather young, yet fascinating topic to study in its own right because it offers challenging evidence both for the autonomy of morphology (morphomic processes) as well as for its tight interconnection with other grammatical domains, notably phonology and syntax. Covering a wide range of phenomena (e.g. negation structures, form function-mismatches in the verbal and nominal domain, loss of morphosyntactic feature values, etc.), the contributions to this volume combine in-depth empirical studies with the explanatory potential of modern theories of grammar as well as approaches for capturing and modelling microtypological diversity.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 207] 2019. v, 345 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 7 June 2019

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.207

Table of Contents

Introduction: On the benefits of analyzing morphological variation by linking theory and empirical evidence

Oliver Schallert and Antje Dammel | pp. 1–26

Possessive -s in German: Development, variation and theoretical status

Tanja Ackermann | pp. 27–62

Analyzing language change through a formalist framework

Raffaela Baechler and Simon Pröll | pp. 63–94

Variation and change of plural verbs in Salzburg’s base dialects

Lars Bülow, Hannes Scheutz and Dominik Wallner | pp. 95–134

Content, form and realizations of Upper German case marking: Issues in modelling corpus-based data

Sophie Ellsäßer | pp. 135–158

Thoughts on morphomes, on a Scandinavian background

Hans-Olav Enger | pp. 159–196

How to get lost: The Präteritumschwund in German dialects

Hanna Fischer | pp. 197–222

The interaction of phonological and morphological variation in Zurich German

Anja Hasse | pp. 223–242

Negative concord in Alemannic: An OT-approach at the syntax-morphology interface

Ann-Marie Moser | pp. 243–282

Variation in non-finiteness and temporality from a canonical perspective

Tabea Reiner | pp. 283–310

Strong or weak? Or: How information structure governs morphosyntactic variation

Helmut Weiß and Seyna Maria Dirani | pp. 311–342

Index

“Insgesamt legen Dammel und Schallert einen sehr überzeugenden Sammelband vor, dessen
Beiträge auf durchweg hohem Niveau die für alle Bereiche der Sprachwissenschaft zentrale Frage
nach dem Zusammenspiel theoretischer Modellierung und empirischer Evidenz erörtern und
damit einen wesentlichen Beitrag nicht nur zur dialektologischen Forschung, sondern auch zur
linguistischen Theoriebildung leisten.”

Stefan Hartmann, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, in Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 89(1): 110-113 (2022).

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2023. Chapter 1. Free variation, unexplained variation?. In Free Variation in Grammar [Studies in Language Companion Series, 234], ► pp. 1 ff.

Baló, Márton A.

2021. Variation in the nominal morphology of Northern Vlax Romani. Word Structure 14:1 ► pp. 25 ff.

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