Microparametric syntax and dialect variation [electronic resource] / edited by James R. Black, Virginia Motapanyane.
Material type: TextLanguage: English, French Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic scienceSeries IVCurrent issues in linguistic theory ; v. 139.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1996Description: xviii, 269 p. : illISBN: 9789027276223 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax | Language and languages -- Variation | Linguistic geographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 415 LOC classification: P291 | .M49 1996Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Microparametric syntax : some introductory remarks / Richard S. Kayne -- Une analyse microparametrique 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 & Gorel Sandstrom -- 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-Therese Vinet -- Verb clusters in continental West Germanic dialects / Jan-Wouter Zwart.
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Includes one contribution in French.
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