Microparametric syntax and dialect variation
By: edited by James R. Black and Virginia Motapanyane.
Contributors: Black, James R.; Motapanyane, Virginia.
Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science,; v. 139
Publisher: J. Benjamins; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.; Language and languages -- Variation.; Linguistic geography.
Notes: Includes one contribution in French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Microparametric syntax : some introductory remarks / Richard S. Kayne; title: Une analyse microparamétrique des moyens dans les langues romanes / J.-Marc Authier & Lisa Reed; title: Treating that-trace variation / Philip Branigan; title: Negative particle questions : a dialectal comparison / Lisa L.-S. Cheng, C.-T. James Huang & C.-C. Jane Tang; title: Imperative inversion in Belfast English / Alison Henry; title: Scandinavian possessive constructions from a northern Swedish viewpoint / Anders Holmberg & Görel Sandström; title: The occasional absence of anaphoric agreement in Labrador Inuttut / Alana Johns; title: Hypothetical infinitives and crosslinguistic variations in continental and Quebec French / France Martineau & Virginia Motapanyane; title: The second person singular interrogative in the traditional vernacular of the Bolton metropolitan area / Graham Shorrocks; title: Reflexives, pronouns, and subject/verb agreement in Icelandic and Faroese / Knut Tarald Taraldsen; title: Adverbial quantifiers and dialectal variation in a minimalist framework / Marie-Thérèse Vinet; title: Verb clusters in continental West Germanic dialects / Jan-Wouter Zwart.