Stable variation in multidimensional competition

Type of Publication: Contribution to a collection
Publication status: Published
Author: Kauhanen, Henri
Year of publication: 2019
Published in: The Determinants of Diachronic Stability / Breitbarth, Anne; Bouzouita, Miriam; Danckaert, Lieven; Farasyn, Melissa (ed.). - Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. - (Linguistik aktuell ; 254). - pp. 263-290. - ISBN 978-90-272-0241-3
DOI (citable link): https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/la.254.11kau
Summary:
The Fundamental Theorem of Language Change (Yang 2000) implies the impossibility of stable variation in the Variational Learning framework, but only in the special case where two, and not more, grammatical variants compete. Introducing the notion of an advantage matrix, I generalize Variational Learn-ing to situations where the learner receives input generated by more than two grammars, and show that diachronically stable variation is an intrinsic feature of several types of such multiple-grammar systems. This invites experimentalists to take the possibility of stable variation seriously and identifies one possible place where to look for it: situations of complex language contact.
Subject (DDC): 400 Philology, Linguistics

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KAUHANEN, Henri, 2019. Stable variation in multidimensional competition. In: BREITBARTH, Anne, ed., Miriam BOUZOUITA, ed., Lieven DANCKAERT, ed., Melissa FARASYN, ed.. The Determinants of Diachronic Stability. Amsterdam:John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 263-290. ISBN 978-90-272-0241-3. Available under: doi: 10.1075/la.254.11kau

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