Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation
Published on 7. November 1996
Book
Hardback
269 pages
978-1-55619-594-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 quantifiers in French and other Romance languages; that-trace variation, Scandinavian possessive constructions, reflexives and subject-verb agreement in Icelandic & Faroese, and verb clusters in continental West Germanic dialects; anaphoric agreement in Labrador Inuttut; negative particle questions in Chinese; imperative inversion in Belfast English; and the second person singular interrogative in the traditional vernacular of Bolton.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
510 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-594-5 (9781556195945)
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Content
1. Microparametric syntax: Some introductory remarks (by Kayne, Richard S.); 2. Une analyse microparametrique des moyens dans les langues romanes (by Authier, Jean-Marc); 3. Tracing that-trace variation (by Branigan, Philip); 4. Negative particle questions: A dialectal comparison (by Cheng, Lisa L.S.); 5. Imperative inversion in Belfast English (by Henry, Alison); 6. Scandinavian Possessive constructions from a Northern Swedish viewpoint (by Holmberg, Anders); 7. The anaphoric agreement morpheme in Labrador Inuttut (by Johns, Alana); 8. Hypothetical infinitives and crosslinguistic variation in continental and Quebec French (by Martineau, France); 9. The second person singular interrogative in the traditional vernacular of the Bolton Metropolitan area (by Shorrocks, Graham); 10. Reflexives, pronouns and subject/V agreement in Icelandic and Faroese (by Taraldsen, Knut Tarald); 11. Adverbial quantifiers and dialectal variation in a minimalist framework (by Vinet, Marie-Therese); 12. Verb clusters in continental West Germanic dialects (by Zwart, C. Jan-Wouter); 13. General index