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In:Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants
Edited by Antje Dammel, Matthias Eitelmann and Mirjam Schmuck
[Studies in Language Companion Series 203] 2018
► pp. 1–16

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Introduction

On the role of reorganisation in long-term variation and change and its theoretical implications

 | University of Mainz
 | University of Mainz
 | University of Münster
Published online: 24 October 2018
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Article outline
  • 1.Reorganising grammatical variation
  • 2.The reorganisation phenomena studied in this volume
  • 3.Insights: Grammatical variation reorganised
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
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