...Dorothee Beermann and Allen Asiimwe, Locatives in Runyankore-Rukiga. In: Morphosyntactic Variation in Bantu. Edited by: Eva-Marie Bloom Ström, Hannah Gibson, Rozenn Guérois, and Lutz Marten, Oxford University Press. © Dorothee Beermann and Allen Asiimwe (2024). DOI...

... dialectometry viable at all? Second, to what extent is morphosyntactic variation in non-standard British dialects patterned geographically? By way of validation, findings are matched against previous work on the dialect geography of Great Britain. The study draws on the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus...

... CAUS CF CH CJ CK CL CLLD CND COM COMP COMPL CON CONN CONT COP CPC CPL CS CSTR accusative adverb affix anterior antipassive applicative aspect associative augment Bantu Morphosyntactic Variation consonant causative counterfactual/contrary to fact chaining conjoint Central Kilimanjaro noun class Cross...

...This 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...

...Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation. First edition. Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. © Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden 2017. First published 2017 by Oxford University Press. This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative...

...Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation. First edition. Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. © Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden 2017. First published 2017 by Oxford University Press. This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative...

...Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation. First edition. Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. © Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden 2017. First published 2017 by Oxford University Press. This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative...

... be the acknowledgement of widespread variability in the ‘homeland’ that is increasingly also historically attested and sociolinguistically described, the study of morphosyntactic variation as an area of language that seems to remain quite stable under settlement conditions, and the comparative study of present-day...

...). This question has been a major challenge for linguists, particularly in the areas of contact linguistics, creolist studies and English dialect studies (for example, of the Celtic Englishes). This article investigates morphosyntactic variation in varieties of English from the perspective of grammaticalization...

... come to be preferred in syntactically complex environments. ¹⁵ 227 228 Research on morphosyntactic variation reveals that what appears to be competing motivations at first glance turns out to be part of an intricately systematic adaptation to processing demands resulting in a division...

... of predicational and possessive structures across a wide range of languages. It follows that meaning plays a rather more direct role in explaining cross linguistic morphosyntactic variation than is often assumed in current theorizing. David Adger Hagit Borer Glossing conventions acc appl asp aux cl Clf cont cop...