Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation

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James R. Black | Memorial University of Newfoundland

Virginia Motapanyane | University of New Brunswick

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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.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 139] 1996. xviii, 269 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.139

Table of Contents

Microparametric syntax: Some introductory remarks

Richard S. Kayne | p. ix

Une analyse microparamétrique des moyens dans les langues romanes

Jean-Marc Authier and Lisa A. Reed | p. 1

Tracing that-trace variation

Philip Branigan | p. 25

Negative particle questions: A dialectal comparison

Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, James Huang and Jane Tang | p. 41

Imperative inversion in Belfast English

Alison Henry | p. 79

Scandinavian Possessive constructions from a Northern Swedish viewpoint

Anders Holmberg and Görel Sandström | p. 95

The anaphoric agreement morpheme in Labrador Inuttut

Alana Johns | p. 121

Hypothetical infinitives and crosslinguistic variation in continental and Québec French

France Martineau and Virginia Motapanyane | p. 145

The second person singular interrogative in the traditional vernacular of the Bolton Metropolitan area

Graham Shorrocks | p. 169

Reflexives, pronouns and subject/V agreement in Icelandic and Faroese

Knut Tarald Taraldsen | p. 189

Adverbial quantifiers and dialectal variation in a minimalist framework

Marie-Thérèse Vinet | p. 213

Verb clusters in continental West Germanic dialects

C. Jan-Wouter Zwart | p. 229

General index | p. 259

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2009. 16 Conclusion and Theoretical Implications. In The Syntax of Ellipsis, ► pp. 239 ff.

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2009. 8 Expanding the Data Set. In The Syntax of Ellipsis, ► pp. 102 ff.

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2009. 12 Theoretical Background. In The Syntax of Ellipsis, ► pp. 156 ff.

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2009. Copyright Page. In The Syntax of Ellipsis, ► pp. iv ff.

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