Current trends in analyzing syntactic variation

Editors

Ludovic De Cuypere | Ghent University & Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Clara Vanderschueren | Ghent University

Gert de Sutter | Ghent University

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[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 31] 2017. vi, 325 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.31

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Current trends in analyzing syntactic variation

Ludovic De Cuypere and Gert De Sutter | pp. 1–7

Articles

Syntactic alternation research: Taking stock and some suggestions for the future

Stefan Th. Gries | pp. 8–29
Cognitive and geographic constraints on morphosyntactic variation: The variable agreement of presentational haber in Peninsular Spanish

Jeroen Claes | pp. 30–55
Language variation and change: A case study of the loss of genitive case in (Heritage) Greek

Artemis Alexiadou | pp. 56–75
A crowdsourcing approach to the description of regional variation in French object clitic clusters

Mathieu Avanzi and Elisabeth Stark | pp. 76–103
Expanding the causative alternation: What about a third variant?

Eugenia Mangialavori Rasia | pp. 104–136
Agreement mismatches in Dutch relatives

Gosse Bouma | pp. 137–164
Scales or features in verb meaning? Verb classes as predictors of syntactic behavior

Elisabeth Verhoeven | pp. 165–194
A corpus-based analysis of pronoun choice in German relative clauses

Patrick Brandt and Eric Fuß | pp. 195–218
Measuring the alternation strength of causative verbs: A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the interaction between verb, theme and construction

Laurence Romain | pp. 219–242
Accounting for syntactic variation in diachrony: The presence vs. absence of de in finite nominal complement clauses in 16th and 17th century Spanish

Anton Granvik | pp. 243–272
Spanish time constructions with hacer : Gradient judgments and corpus data to solve a syntactic conundrum

Borja Herce | pp. 273–300
Exploring the Left Dislocation construction by means of multiple linear regression: Complexity and orality of Modern English left-dislocated NPs

David Tizón-Couto | pp. 301–327

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