Reorganising Grammatical Variation : Diachronic Studies in the Rentention, Redistribution and Refunctionalisation of Linguistic Variants.

Intro -- Reorganising Grammatical Variation -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction: On the role of reorganisation in long-term variation and change and its theoretical implications -- 1. Reorganising grammatical variation -- 2. The reorganisation phenomena studied in this volume -- 3. Insights: Grammatical variation reorganised -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Plural inflection in North Sea Germanic languages: A multivariate analysis of morphological variation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. State of the art -- 2.1 The origin of present-day irregular plurals -- 2.2 Controlling factors -- 3. Methodology and database -- 3.1 Corpus data -- 3.2 Interpretative problems -- 3.3 Statistical methods -- 3.4 Operationalising the controlling factors -- 4. Results of the analyses -- 4.1 Results of the analysis of the historical data -- 4.2 Results of the statistical analyses -- 5. Discussion: Frequency and semantics -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Frequency as a key to language change and reorganisation: On subtraction in German dialects -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dialect data -- 2.1 Overview -- 2.2 Variation as a key to diachrony -- 2.3 A special case: Subtractive case marking -- 2.4 Change: Loss of subtraction and cases of productivity -- 3. Diachronic development -- 3.1 Background and hypothesis -- 3.2 Phonological erosion -- 3.3 Subtraction as a "historical accident" -- 4. Discussion and theoretical implications -- 4.1 Earlier accounts of subtraction in German -- 4.2 My proposal -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- The history of the mixed inflection of German masculine and neuter nouns: Sound shapes, dialectal variation, typology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpus and lay-out of the study -- 3. Sound shapes of masculine and neuter nouns with mixed inflection.

4. Chronological and dialectal distribution of the major sound shapes -- 5. Competing typological tendencies as an explanation of the development -- 6. Summary and outlook -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Genesis and diachronic persistence of overabundance: Data from Romance languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overabundance -- 3. Genesis of overabundance: Type I: 'form' competition -- 3.1 Italian third person pronouns -- 3.2 Genesis of the egli/esso and ella/essa competition -- 4. Genetic Type II: Rule competition -- 4.1 Ampezzan (Ladin) plurals within the Romance context -- 4.2 Persistence across millennia: The case of Latin sepultus/sepelitus and its Romance continuants -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Electronic source -- Appendix 1. Corpus details (Stoppelli and Picchi 2001) -- Appendix 2. Latin 4th conjugation verbs (regular) -- Ablaut reorganisation: The case of German x-o-o -- 1. The rise of a new series: The 8th Ablaut Class -- 2. Class VIII as the result of a regularisation process -- 2.1 The pattern x-o-o as a partial regularisation strategy -- 2.2 Frequency-driven regularisations -- 3. Becoming a member of Class VIII -- 3.1 Determinants of ablaut pattern extension: The case of x-o-o -- 3.2 Restrictions for class membership -- 4. Ablaut (re)functionalisation -- 5. Conclusion: "Ablaut system under reconstruction" -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Reorganising voice in the history of Greek: Split complexity and prescriptivism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background on complexity: Contradictions and split complexity -- 2.1 Contradictions in the analysis of complexity -- 2.2 Split complexity -- 3. Voice morphology variation in Greek and complexity -- 3.1 Voice morphology in Greek -- 3.2 Anticausatives in the Greek diachrony: An overview of a reorganisation -- 4. Split complexity and the (morpho-)syntax of Voice in Greek.

4.1 Processing results and corpus frequencies -- 4.2 Parametric routes for Voice in Greek -- 4.3 The role of prescriptivism -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Making sense of grammatical variation in Norwegian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Verb conjugations -- 2.1 Introducing the data - and the issue -- 2.2 The link with semantics -- 2.3 Supporting evidence -- 2.4 Summarising Section 2 -- 3. Comparative constructions -- 3.1 The issue -- 3.2 Meta-comparison -- 3.3 A warning against introspection -- 3.4 A comparison with two other studies on comparison -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Manner of motion and semantic transitivity: A usage-based perspective on change and continuity in the system of the German perfect auxiliaries haben and sein -- 1. Entrenchment, productivity, and reorganisation -- 2. Cross-linguistic accounts of auxiliary selection: Prototype Approach and Auxiliary Selection Hierarchy -- 3. Auxiliary selection in German language history -- 3.1 Corpus study of have and be + V-PP in Old Germanic texts -- 3.2 The role of telicity in the auxiliary selection of Early New High German manner of motion verbs -- 4. Corpus study on auxiliary selection in contemporary German -- 4.1 Auxiliary selection of intransitive manner of motion verbs: Entrenchment due to high token frequency -- 4.2 Productivity of manner of motion semantics and entrenchment of an abstract schema -- 4.3 haben selection and high transitivity -- 5. Summary: Manner of motion semantics and transitivity in contemporary German -- Corpora -- References -- Active and passive tough-infinitives: A case of long-term grammatical variation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A brief history of the emergence and development of active and passive tough-infinitives -- 3. The diachronic trajectories of active and passive tough-infinitives.

4. Functional equivalence or functional specialisation? -- 5. A long flirt turning sour -- 5.1 Tough-adverbialisation and concomitant reanalysis of the to-infinitive -- 5.2 Modal specialisation of the passive to-infinitive governed by be -- 5.3 Till modality do us part -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Data sources -- References -- Index.

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