Morphological variation: theoretical and empirical perspectives

Morphological variation is a rather young, yet fascinating topic to study in its own right because it offers challenging evidence both for the autonomy of morphology (morphomic processes) as well as for its tight interconnection with other grammatical domains, notably phonology and syntax. Covering a wide range of phenomena (e.g. negation structures, form function-mismatches in the verbal and nominal domain, loss of morphosyntactic feature values, etc.), the contributions to this volume combine in-depth empirical studies with the explanatory potential of modern theories of grammar as well as approaches for capturing and modelling microtypological diversity

Introduction: on the benefits of analyzing morphological variation by linking theory and empirical evidence / Oliver Schallert and Antje Dammel -- Possessive -s in German: Development, variation and theoretical status / Tanja Ackermann -- Analyzing language change through a formalist framework / Raffaela Baechler and Simon Pröll -- Variation and change of plural verbs in Salzburg's base dialects / Lars Bülow, Hannes Scheutz and Dominik Wallner -- Content, form and realizations of Upper German case marking: Issues in modelling corpus-based data / Sophie Ellsässer -- Thoughts on morphomes, on a Scandinavian background / Hans-Olav Enger -- How to get lost: The Präteritumschwund in German dialects / Hanna Fischer -- The interaction of phonological and morphological variation in Zurich German / Anja Hasse -- Negative concord in Alemannic: An OT-approach at the syntax-morphology interface / Ann-Marie Moser -- Variation in non-finiteness and temporality from a canonical perspective / Tabea Reiner -- Strong or weak? Or: How information structure governs morphosyntactic variation / Helmut Weiss and Seyna Maria Dirani -- Index