Edited by Alba Cerrudo, Ángel J. Gallego and Francesc Roca Urgell
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 34] 2021
► pp. 109–146
In this chapter we show the interest of the data gathered in linguistic atlases and traditional dialectology materials in the context of the significant development of formal studies in dialect syntax. We present a case study based on almost unexplored dialects in the Central Pyrenean region with the purpose of showing how dialectal data can contribute to an in-depth knowledge of the grammar of natural languages. We present an already-tested roadmap to develop a micro-syntactic investigation that aims at providing a fine-grained description of synchronic variation in the use of negative minimizers and, at the same time, seeks to determine the formal features of such items, as well as the consequences of different feature specification for the negative concord.