Register Variation and Syntactic Theory

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 17:2 (2017)

Editors

Diane Massam | University of Toronto

Tim Stowell | University of California, Los Angeles

[Linguistic Variation, 17:2] 2017. v, 198 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.17.2

Table of Contents

Articles

Introducing register variation and syntactic theory

Tim Stowell & Diane Massam | pp. 149–156
Object drop and article drop in reduced written register

Andrew Weir | pp. 157–185
On the omission of articles and copulae in German newspaper headlines

Ingo Reich | pp. 186–204
Register variation and distributional patterns in article omission in Dutch headlines

Albert Oosterhof & Gudrun Rawoens | pp. 205–228
Unspeakable sentences: Subject omission in written registers: a cartographic analysis

Liliane Haegeman | pp. 229–250
Subject drop in Swiss French text messages

Elisabeth Stark & Aurélia Robert-Tissot | pp. 251–271
Obligatorily null pronouns in the instructional register and beyond

Diane Massam, Kazuya Bamba & Patrick Murphy | pp. 272–291
Reduced structure in Malagasy headlines

Ileana Paul | pp. 292–308

Regular article

Null arguments in old Norwegian: Interaction between pronouns and the functional categories of the clause

pp. 309–346

Subjects

Linguistics

Generative linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CFK: Grammar, syntax

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General