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Variation and Morphosyntactic Theory: Competition Fractionated
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2007Abstract The study of the ‘dynamic’ aspects of language – variation and change – and the development of grammatical theory are often pursued independently of one another. Concentrating on morphosyntax, this article explores connections between these domains that are centered on the notion of ‘competition’.
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2013
AbstractThis chapter first reviews early methodological and theoretical debates regarding the nature of variation above the level of phonology. These debates include whether or not the notion of the linguistic variable can be legitimately extended to morphosyntactic variation; the nature of the relationship between quantitative data and the statistical
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AbstractThis chapter first reviews early methodological and theoretical debates regarding the nature of variation above the level of phonology. These debates include whether or not the notion of the linguistic variable can be legitimately extended to morphosyntactic variation; the nature of the relationship between quantitative data and the statistical
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The Quantitative Analysis of Morphosyntactic Variation: Constructing and Quantifying the Denominator
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2009Abstract At its inception, the sociolinguistic enterprise focused on research on phonological variability and only later broadened its remit to include ‘variability [that] occurs and can be dealt with at level of grammar above (and beyond) the phonological’ (:45). This extension, however, has not been without controversy and continues
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Morphosyntactic variation in the temporal construals of non-root modals
2010We provide a principled account of the morphosyntax-semantics interface of non-root modals in two Romance languages (Spanish/French) vs. English. While English modals are morphologically impoverished, Romance modals are fully inflected for tense and aspect and the possible combinations of tense and aspect constrain the range of construals available ...
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Cognitive and geographic constraints on morphosyntactic variation
Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2017AbstractIn this paper, I examine whether the variation patterns ofhaberpluralization (e.g.,hubo/hubieron fiestas‘there was/were parties’) in Peninsular Spanish corroborate the hypothesis elaborated in earlier work that the phenomenon constitutes a competition between two variants of the presentational construction withhaberthat is constrained by domain-
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Apparently competing motivations in morphosyntactic variation
2014AbstractWith the revived interest in variation there has been growing readiness to incorporate competing motivations into linguistic theory‐building. Previous work (Mondorf 2009a) has shown that English comparatives are a showcase of grammatical variation, in which what looks like competing motivations at first glance turns out to be an emergent ...
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Children’s Acquisition of Morphosyntactic Variation
Language Learning and Development, 2022Naomi Shin, Karen Miller
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Variation in phonological and morphosyntactic development in multilingual pre-schoolers
Abstract The present chapter investigates how the quantity of input and the linguistic characteristics of the Heritage Language (HL), Spanish or Russian, impact the comprehension of English Subject-Verb Agreement (SVA) (Study 1) and the production of English vowels (Study 2). In both HLs, SVA exhibits more contrastive forms thanIsabelle Barrière +2 more
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