Morphological Variation : Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives.

Intro -- Morphological Variation -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction: On the benefits of analyzing morphological variation by linking theory and empirical evidence -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. A short overview on the research tradition -- 3. Morphological variation and its importance for linguistic theory -- 3.1 Another kind of morphological naturalness -- 3.2 Morphological variation and its importance for linguistic theory -- 3.3 Variation and morphological theory -- 4. The contributions to the present volume -- 5. Lessons to be learned -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Possessive -s in German: Development, variation and theoretical status -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Empirical analysis -- 2.1 The development of the superstable marker -s -- 2.2 The current occurrences of possessive -s -- 2.3 A contrastive comparison with English and Dutch -- 3. Theoretical considerations -- 3.1 Morphological status of possessive -s -- 3.2 Consequences for synchronic syntactic modelling -- 3.3 Implications for diachronic modelling -- 4. Conclusion -- Corpora -- References -- Analyzing language change through a formalist framework -- 1. Motivation and overview -- 2. Theory: Formal inflectional models -- 3. Synchronic and diachronic analysis -- 3.1 Traditional inflection classes -- 3.2 Content paradigms -- 3.3 Realized paradigms -- 3.4 Form paradigms -- 4. Summary -- 5. Outlook -- References -- Appendix -- Variation and change of plural verbs in Salzburg's base dialects -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical preliminaries -- 2.1 IAV from a theoretical perspective -- 2.2 IAV from an empirical perspective -- 3. Plural verbs in Bavarian dialects of Salzburg -- 4. Method -- 4.1 Survey procedures -- 4.2 Material and stimuli -- 4.3 Informants and locations -- 5. Results.

5.1 Plural verb variation and change from the 1970/80s to today -- 5.2 Intra-individual variation over time -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Content, form and realizations of Upper German case marking: Issues in modelling corpus-based data -- 1. Case marking in German dialects: A challenge for formal theories -- 2. Corpus-based study on Upper German dialects -- 2.1 A corpus of spoken dialectal language -- 2.2 A quantitative analysis of case marking -- 2.3 Types and patterns in Upper German case marking: Basic findings -- 3. Empirical data meets formal theory -- 3.1 PFM and the features of Upper German case marking -- 3.2 Modelling case marking types -- 3.3 Modelling case marking patterns -- 4. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Thoughts on morphomes, on a Scandinavian background -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Explicating the morphome -- 2.1 Outlining the morphome -- 2.2 Not useless after all: Intra-morphological meaning -- 2.3 Why emphasize morphomes? -- 3. On some recent objections against morphomic patterns -- 3.1 The sociological argument -- 3.2 The Savognin argument and a preliminary conclusion -- 3.3 Stability and change: And clarification of a hypothesis -- 4. Some examples from Scandinavian -- 4.1 A new inflection class in Norwegian, Swedish and Faroese -- 4.2 Trying to copy your new neighbor -- 4.3 Meat from shoulders in Meldal -- 4.4 Strengthening of inflection class in Swedish and in Østfold -- 4.5 Neuters in transition -- 4.6 Body part nouns -- 4.7 Summing up Section 4 -- 5. Some meta-objections and how to deal with them -- 5.1 On white and black swans -- 5.2 Learnability -- 5.3 "Taking morphology seriously" -- 5.4 Form-form relations -- 5.5 What is autonomy? -- 6. Concluding remarks -- 6.1 Independently morphological innovations -- 6.2 Some other lessons to take away.

6.3 Envoi -- Acknowledgments -- References -- How to get lost: The Präteritumschwund in German dialects -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The areal distribution of the preterite loss -- 3. The explanation -- 3.1 Step 1: Grammaticalization of the present perfect form -- 3.2 Step 2: Semantic expansion of the present perfect -- 3.3 Step 3: Functional expansion of the present perfect -- 3.4 Step 4: Marginalization of the preterite form -- 4. The hierarchy of preterite loss -- 4.1 Frequency -- 4.2 Morphological irregularity -- 4.3 Syntactic complexity -- 4.4 Semantic properties -- 5. The principles of losing forms -- Acknowledgement -- References -- The interaction of phonological and morphological variation in Zurich German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology and data discussion -- 2.1 Phonological variation -- 2.2 Morphological variation -- 3. Theoretical framework -- 3.1 Canonical inflectional system -- 3.2 Shape conditioning -- 3.3 Overabundance -- 3.4 Higher-order exceptionality -- 4. Results -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Negative concord in Alemannic: An OT-approach at the syntax-morphology interface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 2.1 Metalinguistic comments in the dialectal literature -- 2.2 Spontaneous speech data -- 2.3 Questionnaire -- 2.4 Summary -- 3. Towards an explanation of NC -- 3.1 The semantic and syntactic behavior of n-indefinites -- 3.2 The syntax of NC: General issues and two applications -- 3.3 Explaining NC in optimality theory (OT) -- 3.4 Summary -- 3.5 A side note on the classification of NC types -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- A. Appendix -- Variation in non-finiteness and temporality from a canonical perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology and data discussion -- 2.1 Finiteness in German -- 2.2 Variation in German (non-)finiteness -- 3. Theoretical framework -- 4. Conclusion.

Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Corpora -- Used -- Mentioned -- References -- Strong or weak?: Or: How information structure governs morphosyntactic variation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The two definite articles in South Hessian: Form and distribution -- 2.1 The current research status in a nutshell -- 2.2 The situation in South Hessian - an empirical research -- 2.3 Why focus also exists in the DP - evidence for a split-DP hypothesis -- 3. Pronouns: Form and distribution -- 3.1 In general -- 3.2 The morphosyntax of pronouns in German dialects -- 3.3 Strongly vs. weakly used pronouns -- 4. Comparison -- 5. Analysis -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary literature -- Index.

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