Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation
Editors
Richard Kayne’s introduction to this volume stresses that comparative work on the syntax of very closely related languages and dialects is a research tool promising to provide both a broad understanding of parameters at their finest-grained and an approach to the question of the minimal units of syntactic variation. The 11 articles in this collection demonstrate the use of this tool in analyzing microparametric variation, principally with reference to Chomsky’s Minimalist program, in a variety of languages. Topics include se/si constructions, hypothetical infinitives and adverbial quantifiers in French and other Romance languages; that-trace variation, Scandinavian possessive constructions, reflexives and subject-verb agreement in Icelandic & Faroese, and verb clusters in continental West Germanic dialects; anaphoric agreement in Labrador Inuttut; negative particle questions in Chinese; imperative inversion in Belfast English; and the second person singular interrogative in the traditional vernacular of Bolton.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 139] 1996. xviii, 269 pp.
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Published online on 24 October 2011
Published online on 24 October 2011
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Table of Contents
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Microparametric syntax: Some introductory remarksRichard S. Kayne | p. ix
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Une analyse microparamétrique des moyens dans les langues romanesJean-Marc Authier and Lisa A. Reed | p. 1
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Tracing that-trace variationPhilip Branigan | p. 25
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Negative particle questions: A dialectal comparisonLisa Lai-Shen Cheng, James Huang and Jane Tang | p. 41
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Imperative inversion in Belfast EnglishAlison Henry | p. 79
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Scandinavian Possessive constructions from a Northern Swedish viewpointAnders Holmberg and Görel Sandström | p. 95
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The anaphoric agreement morpheme in Labrador InuttutAlana Johns | p. 121
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Hypothetical infinitives and crosslinguistic variation in continental and Québec FrenchFrance Martineau and Virginia Motapanyane | p. 145
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The second person singular interrogative in the traditional vernacular of the Bolton Metropolitan areaGraham Shorrocks | p. 169
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Reflexives, pronouns and subject/V agreement in Icelandic and FaroeseKnut Tarald Taraldsen | p. 189
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Adverbial quantifiers and dialectal variation in a minimalist frameworkMarie-Thérèse Vinet | p. 213
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Verb clusters in continental West Germanic dialectsC. Jan-Wouter Zwart | p. 229
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General index | p. 259
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CF: Linguistics
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LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General