Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2006

Editor
ORCID logoPierre Pica | CNRS, Paris
Associate Editors
ORCID logoJeroen van Craenenbroeck | Catholic University Brussels
ORCID logoJohan Rooryck | Leiden University
PaperbackAvailable
ISBN 9789027254764 | EUR 100.00 | USD 150.00
 
e-JournalAvailable
| EUR 97.00
The Linguistic Variation Yearbook is exclusively devoted to the study of the nature and scope of linguistic variation from the point of view of the minimalist program. In this perspective, the yearbook aims at going beyond the traditional tension between explanatory and descriptive adequacy. It seeks in particular to investigate to what extent the study of linguistic variation can shed light on the broader issue of language particular vs. language universal properties and design.

The Linguistic Variation Yearbook publishes annually a collection of (invited) articles on a theme that is current in and important to the research on linguistic variation within the generative framework. The focus is on comparative studies, such as research on typology and dialect variation.

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 6] 2006.  iv, 274 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Pierre Pica, Johan Rooryck and Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
v–vi
Articles
Explanation in Biolinguistics
Lyle Jenkins
1–24
‘Single Cycle’ Languages: Implications for Cyclicity, Recursion and Acquisition
Arthur Stepanov
25–71
Determiner Sharing from a Crosslinguistic Perspective
Barbara Citko
73–96
Escaping the Person Case Constraint: Reference-set computation in the φ-system
Milan Rezac
97–138
Object Shift, Phases, and Transitive Expletive Constructions in Germanic*
Marc Richards
139–159
The Structure of Temporality and Modality: (or, Towards deriving something like a Cinque Hierarchy)
Jonny Butler
161–201
Bare Infinitives in Alemannic and the Categorial Status of Infinitival Complements
Ellen Brandner
203–268
Language index
269
Subject index
271–273
Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CFK: Grammar, syntax

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General