Table of contents
Chapter 1.Free variation, unexplained variation?1
Section 1.Identifying and measuring free variation
Chapter 2.How free is the position of German object pronouns?22
Chapter 3.Optionality in the syntax of Germanic traditional dialects: On (at least) two types of intra-individual variation48
Chapter 4.Non-verbal plural number agreement. Between the distributive plural and singular: Blocking factors and free variation74
Chapter 5.‘Optional’ direct objects: Free variation?99
Section 2.Free variation and language change
Chapter 6.Variation and change in the Aanaar Saami conditional perfect168
Chapter 7.Stability of inflectional variation: The dative of the indefinite article in Zurich German202
Chapter 8.Resemanticising ‘free’ variation: The case of V1 conditionals in Dutch229
Section 3.Free variation? Look harder!
Chapter 9.Syntactic priming and individual preferences: A corpus-based analysis260
Chapter 10.Optionality, variation and categorial properties: The case of plural marking in Yucatec Maya284
Chapter 11.Variation of deontic constructions in spoken Catalan: An exploratory study315
Index