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Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian
Edited by Höskuldur Thráinsson, Caroline Heycock, Hjalmar P. Petersen and Zakaris Svabo Hansen
[Studies in Germanic Linguistics 1] 2017
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Introduction

| University of Iceland
| University of Edinburgh
| University of the Faroe Islands
| University of the Faroe Islands
Article outline
  • 1.Background
  • 2.The data
  • 3.Descriptive topics
  • 4.Theoretical and comparative issues
    • 4.1Methodology
    • 4.2Comparative Insular Scandinavian
    • 4.3Acquisition, change and the nature of variation
    • 4.4Syntactic structure
  • 5.Concluding remarks
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 18 July 2017
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