Microparametric syntax and dialect variation / edited by James R. Black, Virginia Motapanyane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Black, James R.

Motapanyane, Virginia.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 139.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 139

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Linguistic geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Richard Kayne's introduction to this volume stresses that comparative work on the syntax of very closely related languages and dialects is a research tool promising to provide both a broad understanding of parameters at their finest-grained and an approach to the question of the minimal units of syntactic variation. The 11 articles in this collection demonstrate the use of this tool in analyzing microparametric variation, principally with reference to Chomsky's Minimalist program, in a variety of languages. Topics include se/si constructions, hypothetical infinitives and adverbial quant

Contents:

Microparametric syntax : some introductory remarks / Richard S. Kayne

Une analyse microparamétrique des moyens dans les langues romanes / J.-Marc Authier & Lisa Reed

Treating that-trace variation / Philip Branigan

Negative particle questions : a dialectal comparison / Lisa L.-S. Cheng, C.-T. James Huang & C.-C. Jane Tang

Imperative inversion in Belfast English / Alison Henry

Scandinavian possessive constructions from a northern Swedish viewpoint / Anders Holmberg & Görel Sandström

The occasional absence of anaphoric agreement in Labrador Inuttut / Alana Johns

Hypothetical infinitives and crosslinguistic variations in continental and Quebec French / France Martineau & Virginia Motapanyane

The second person singular interrogative in the traditional vernacular of the Bolton metropolitan area / Graham Shorrocks

Reflexives, pronouns, and subject/verb agreement in Icelandic and Faroese / Knut Tarald Taraldsen

Adverbial quantifiers and dialectal variation in a minimalist framework / Marie-Thérèse Vinet

Verb clusters in continental West Germanic dialects / Jan-Wouter Zwart.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-31255-7

9786613312556

90-272-7622-6

OCLC:

759101589