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The Limits of Syntactic VariationEdited by Theresa Biberauer
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 132] 2008
► pp. 441–456
Edited by Theresa Biberauer
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 132] 2008
► pp. 441–456
Diachronic stability and feature interpretability
This contribution examines diachronic change in the Greek nominal phrase.
It proposes an analysis to capture the diachronic stability of certain syntactic
structures in the nominal domain, suggesting that points of stability reflect
macroparametric rather than microparametric choices, which are more
vulnerable to change and loss. Macroparametric choices are assumed to involve
choices pertaining to the presence versus absence in a grammar of functional
categories, while microparametric choices relate to the presence versus absence
of uninterpretable features on otherwise identical functional categories. The
difference in diachronic stability is linked to the generally “defective” status of
uninterpretable features in the human language faculty.
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Phoevos Panagiotidis, E. & Theodore Marinis
2011. Determiner spreading as DP‐predication*. Studia Linguistica 65:3 ► pp. 268 ff. 
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