商品簡介
European and North American linguists build on earlier studies of universals and variation in language, and the relationship between what superficially seem contradictory notions. They cover varieties and cross-linguistic variations, contact-induced variation, methodological issues of variation research, and variation and linguistic theory. Among specific topics are auxiliation and alignment as two euroversals in a global perspective, universals of structural borrowing, problems and perspectives in comparing varieties of English, and rule-based and usage-based approaches to phonological variation. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Peter Siemund, University of Hamburg, Germany.
