Cognitive, Social, and Individual Constraints on Linguistic Variation
| Author | : Jeroen Claes |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2016-12-19 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9783110524154 |
| ISBN-10 | : 3110524155 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Cognitive, Social, and Individual Constraints on Linguistic Variation by : Jeroen Claes
Download or read book Cognitive, Social, and Individual Constraints on Linguistic Variation written by Jeroen Claes and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume tries to answer the question: What constrains morphosyntactic variation? By analyzing the variable agreement of presentational haber (‘there to be’) in Caribbean Spanish with advanced statistical tools and theoretical constructs of Cognitive Sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and variationist sociolinguistics, it proposes an innovative theoretical model of the constraints that govern morphosyntactic variation.
