Microparametric syntax and dialect variation / / edited by James R. Black, Virginia Motapanyane

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820091403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1996
• ISBN: 1-283-31255-7; 9786613312556; 90-272-7622-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Collana: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 139
• Altri autori (Persone): BlackJames R; MotapanyaneVirginia
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetti: Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Language and languages - Variation; Linguistic geography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Microparametric syntax : some introductory remarks / Richard S. Kayne -- Une analyse microparamétrique 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 & Görel Sandström -- 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-Thérèse Vinet -- Verb clusters in continental West Germanic dialects / Jan-Wouter Zwart.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 quant