Grammar between Norm and Variation

Contents: Alexandra N. Lenz/Albrecht Plewnia: On Grammar between Norm and Variation - Markus Hundt: New norms - How new grammatical constructions emerge - Beate Henn-Memmesheimer: Ephemera and Tradition-Founding Grammatical Constructions: Staging and Acceptance - Ulrich Busse/Anne Schröder: Problem areas of English grammar between usage, norm, and variation - Renata Szczepaniak: Während des Flug(e)s/des Ausflug(e)s? German Short and Long Genitive Endings between Norm and Variation - Stephan Elspass: Regional Standard Variation in and out of Grammarian's Focus - Jürg Fleischer: Norm and variation in the relative order of accusative and dative personal pronouns in German: Evidence from corpora (18th-21st century) - Christa Dürscheid/Nadio Giger: Variation in the case system of German - linguistic analysis and optimality theory - Petra Campe: Syntactic variation in German adnominal constructions: An application to the alternatives 'genitive', 'apposition' and 'compound' - Joybrato Mukherjee: Corpus-based Insights into Verb-complementational Innovations in Indian English: Cases of Nativised Semantico-structural Analogy - Reinhard Goltz: Norms and Variation in the Process of Modernizing and Vitalizing the Low German Regional Language - Claudia Maria Riehl: Norm and variation in language minority settings.

Alexandra N. Lenz is professor at the University of Vienna. Her research focus is on variationist linguistics, syntax, semantics, grammaticalization and language history. Albrecht Plewnia works as researcher at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim. His research focuses on German grammar, minority languages, multilingualism and language attitude.