TY - BOOK ID - 46192454 TI - Aspects of Linguistic Variation AU - Olmen, Daniël AU - Brisard, Frank AU - Mortelmans, Tanja PY - 2019 SN - 9783110607956 3110607956 3110607964 PB - De Gruyter DB - UniCat KW - Grammar, Comparative and general. KW - Cognitive grammar. KW - Typology (Linguistics) KW - Language and languages KW - Variation. KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Linguistic typology KW - Linguistics KW - Linguistic universals KW - Cognitive linguistics KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Comparative grammar KW - Grammar KW - Grammar, Philosophical KW - Grammar, Universal KW - Philosophical grammar KW - Philology KW - Typology KW - Classification KW - Grammar, Comparative KW - Diachrony. KW - Typology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46192454 AB - Linguistic variation is a topic of ongoing interest to the field. Its description and its explanations continue to intrigue scholars from many different backgrounds. By taking a deliberately broad perspective on the matter, covering not only crosslinguistic and diachronic but also intralinguistic and interspeaker variation and examining phenomena ranging from negation over connectives to definite articles in well- and lesser-known languages, the volume furthers our understanding of variation in general. The papers offer new insights into, among other things, the theoretical notion of comparative concepts, the social or mental nature of language structure, the areal factor in lexical typology and the diachronic implications of semantic maps. The collection will thus be of relevance to typologists and historical linguists, as well as to people studying variation within the areas of cognitive and functional linguistics. ER -