Article outline

• 1.1Verb-particle data
  • 1.1.1The alternation problem and a possible solution
  • 1.1.2More Norwegian data to be considered
  • 1.1.3Norwegian in a Scandinavian perspective
  • 1.1.4The Norwegian language situation – and the rendition of Norwegian examples
• 1.2Basic theoretical assumptions
  • 1.2.1X-bar theory
  • 1.2.2Neo-constructivism
• 1.3Parameters and syntactic micro-variation
  • 1.3.1(Micro-)Parameters as first-, second-, or third-factor principles?
  • 1.3.2Phrase structural vs. operational variation
  • 1.3.3Dialects as a comparative object of study
• 1.4Dialectological sources and tools
  • 1.4.1Corpus data
    • 1.4.1.1Speech corpora
    • 1.4.1.2The Nordic Dialect Corpus: Dialects, transcription, and informants
  • 1.4.2Norsk Ordbok ‘The Norwegian Dictionary’
  • 1.4.3Norwegian dialectological sources
  • 1.4.4Introspective examples
  • 1.4.5Acceptability judgement of the Norwegian particle distribution
• 1.5The structure of the book
• Notes