Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)

ISBN 10: 155619594X / ISBN 13: 9781556195945

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 155619594X
• ISBN 13: 9781556195945
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

Language Notes

Text: English, French