cad a22 4500 551468483 20191111064342.0 cr unu---uuuuu 181215e20181108xx s 000 0 ger 10.5167/uzh-159658 doi 10.1515/roja-2018-0004 doi (ZORA)oai:www.zora.uzh.ch:159658 800 ddc 470 ddc 410 ddc 440 ddc 460 ddc 450 ddc Stark Elisabeth Sprache, Grammatik, Variation - viticulture linguistique [Elektronische Daten] [Elisabeth Stark] openAccess eu-repo The aim of this contribution is to reposition a key notion to the centre of Wulf Oesterreicher's theoretical disciplinary reasoning: grammar, or more generally, ‘rules and norms' specific to single languages and varieties the linguist deals with. This includes contingent, non-motivated structures, and claiming the necessity to analyse their existence ‘as such' (i.e., also independently of communicative, social etc. factors) as the core task of linguistics. This point is illustrated with a much debated variable in French descriptive linguistics: past participle agreement. Combining theoretical and corpus linguistic observations, the distribution of the two variants (absence vs. realization of agreement) in constructions with the auxiliary avoir shows that a grammatical analysis interested in the derivation of certain rules and their application in actual language usage permits to understand the logic of linguistic variation - at least the one observable alongside the standard - non-standard opposition in French. Institute of Romance Studies zora Romanistisches Jahrbuch 69:96-118 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/159658/1/%5BRomanistisches_Jahrbuch%5D_Sprache_Grammatik_Variation__viticulture_linguistique.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository 1 Journal Article PeerReviewed zora ZORA 856 40 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/159658/1/%5BRomanistisches_Jahrbuch%5D_Sprache_Grammatik_Variation__viticulture_linguistique.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository ZORA 100 1- Stark Elisabeth ZORA 773 0- Romanistisches Jahrbuch 69:96-118 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 ZORA ZORA ZORA Journal Article openAccess