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Table of Contents

  • 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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