Perspectives on Variation

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Perspectives on Variation is written by Nicole Delbecque and published by Walter de Gruyter. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 311018284X (ISBN 10) and 9783110182842 (ISBN 13).

Based on presentations made at the meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea held in Leuven in 2001, the 14 contributions in this text illustrate the ongoing evolution of the field of linguistic variation and highlight the interactions between its sociolinguistic, historical and comparative subfields. A sampling of topics: Europe's sociolinguistic unity, inflection variation in Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch, experience and conceptualization in the modern English lexicon of LOVE, the role of semasiological profiles in merger discontinuations, development and motivation of marked plural forms in German, the magic of gender assignment, cleft constructions in French and Spanish, and the lexicalization of speech act evaluations in German, English, and Dutch. Annotation :2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).