Index
A
- absence of material
6, 10, 128, 140, 286, 293
- acceptability
9, 23, 25, 28–45, 51, 67, 76–77, 81–85, 90, 95, 101–102, 125, 137, 139–143, 151, 154, 212, 286, 318–320, 339
- age (of speaker)
51, 62, 188–194, 213, 263, 324–325, 331
- agreement
5, 65–67, 75–77, 84–85, 95–96, 119, 285, 287, 302
- allo-form
5, 13, 101–106, 205, 207, 230, 286, 318, 322, 326, 341
- ambiguity
77, 80, 109–110, 119, 121, 131, 135, 144, 154, 178, 308
- animacy
1, 22–24, 26–35, 37, 40–41, 44, 214–215, 217, 230, 233, 235–237, 240–241, 245–246, 286, 289–290, 294
B
- between-grammar approachsee variable output grammar
- bilingualism
4, 170, 195, 318
- blockingsee conditioned variation
- borrowingsee language contact
C
- cognition
5, 45, 105, 236, 246, 263, 265, 277–278
- competing grammars
4–5, 49, 65–68
- conditionals
168–169, 171–175, 178, 183, 197–198, 230–233, 245–246
- conditioned variation
10, 13, 51–52, 59, 77–83, 95–96, 106, 150, 208–209, 211, 217, 219, 224–225, 229–230, 266, 284–285, 289, 294, 308, 340
- constraintsee influencing factor
- construction grammar
3, 5, 68, 104, 137
- corpus data
8–10, 28, 43–45, 85–87, 95–96, 140, 174–176, 203, 212–214, 236–237, 268
- countability
77, 79, 81, 295
- counterfactualsee conditionals
D
- diachronysee language change
- dialect
6, 53, 58, 62, 171–174, 186–187, 212, 267–269, 271, 318, 340
E
- entrenchment
84, 264–265, 276–277
- equivalencesee functional equivalence
- experiment
28–43, 139–155, 194
F
- factorsee influencing factor
- free choicesee free variation
- free variation (definitions)
2, 6, 24, 49–50, 60–61, 83–84, 101–106, 169, 205–206, 225, 229–231, 260–261, 288, 316–317, 343
- free variation (stability)
13–14, 60, 65, 169, 194–197, 202–246
- free variation (transitional stage)
13, 65, 165, 194, 197–198, 204, 224, 246
- frequency
10, 25, 30, 35, 43–44, 85–91, 105, 112, 140, 177, 181–182, 184, 186, 188, 197–198, 203, 206–207, 222, 237, 242–246, 262, 265–271, 286, 294, 320, 331–334
- functional equivalence
2–5, 10, 23, 49, 60–61, 68, 83–84, 94–95, 102–104, 156, 169, 197, 204, 206–208, 225, 242, 288, 318
- functionalist linguistics
3, 5, 202
G
- generationsee age (of speaker)
- generative linguistics
3–5, 317
- genre
2, 85, 91–95, 150, 236
- German
2, 9, 13, 22–45, 53–54, 57, 61–67, 103, 107, 113, 117, 155, 204–225, 232
- Germanic
4, 13, 55, 61, 230–233
- grammaticalisation
112, 231, 235–236, 279
- grammaticality
5, 25, 29, 32, 35, 39, 44, 49, 51–52, 56, 60, 68, 298
H
- horror aequi
196, 230, 246
I
- idiolect
4, 49, 219, 264–265
- individual grammarsee idiolect
- influencing factor
1–2, 6–10, 13, 22, 24, 28, 30–31, 35–45, 49, 65, 69, 77–85, 91, 94–95, 140, 152, 169, 190, 197, 203, 207, 209, 214–219, 225, 230, 237–241, 262–263, 267–278, 284–285, 289–293, 307–308, 316, 320–325, 331, 337, 341–344
- interchangeabilitysee functional equivalence
- interferencesee language contact
- inter-individual variation
1, 9, 203, 316
- intra-individual variation
1, 49–51, 53, 58, 61, 65, 102, 105–106, 203, 219–221, 316
L
- language change
13–14, 60, 66, 112, 194, 197, 266, 307
- language contact
53–56, 62, 170, 194–195, 307, 318–319, 334, 337, 339–340
- language processing
25, 35, 44–45, 263, 328
- lesser documented languages
7, 9, 170, 195, 203
M
- markedness
39, 51–54, 56–60, 69, 117, 124, 236, 246, 290–294, 319, 323, 331, 334, 337, 339, 341
- meaning
2–6, 10, 23–24, 50, 79–81, 83, 86, 101–112, 127–130, 170, 192–193, 231, 233–235, 245–246, 288–290, 296, 298, 300
- modal verb
15, 61–62, 181, 232–235, 318–320
N
- number
6, 74–96, 180–181, 205–206, 209–210, 224, 284–308
O
- omission
2, 39, 99–156, 321–322
- optimality theory
4, 5, 49, 68, 105, 316
P
- Pāṇini Principlesee Principle of No Synonymy
- predictorsee influencing factor
- Principle of No Synonymy
5, 99–100, 109, 204, 206
- processingsee language processing
- productivity
112, 117, 128, 131, 151, 171, 275
- psycholinguistics
262, 265–266, 316
Q
- questionnaire
141, 162–163, 174–176, 326
R
- randomness
2, 6, 24, 26, 45, 217, 316
- rule
3, 5, 24, 52, 56–60, 68, 77, 83, 101–106, 109–123, 138, 151, 202–203, 316
S
- sociolinguistics
2–3, 6, 49–51, 62, 65, 202–203, 205, 268, 316, 323–326, 339–340
- Spanish
6, 99, 260–279, 286, 294, 307–308, 318–321, 324–327, 339–340
- speech community
175, 203, 207, 219, 221, 316
- stability of free variationsee free variation (stability)
- style
1–2, 6, 50, 62, 108, 139, 155, 230, 261, 267, 288, 294, 308
- synonymsee functional equivalence
T
- transitional stagesee free variation (transitional stage)
U
- underspecification
5, 49, 110–111
- unexplained variation
2–3, 8, 204, 260–261, 277–278, 284, 287
V
- variable output grammar
5, 25, 49, 68
- variationist linguistics
8, 48–49, 203, 260–261
W
- within-grammar approachsee competing grammars
- word order
4, 5, 11, 22–45, 53–54, 59, 61–62, 156, 229–246