Linguistic Variation in the Minimalist Framework

Herausgeber: Picallo, M. Carme

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, leading scholars in the field tackle a variety of current issues in linguistic variation from a minimalist perspective, including the role of parameters, the significance of syntactic factors in language variation, and the conditions imposed by narrow syntax.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9780198783572
• ISBN-10: 0198783574
• Artikelnr.: 47871103

Autorenporträt

M. Carme Picallo is Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and member of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica. Her research interests focus on syntactic theory and syntactic variation. Her publications include papers in Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Journal of Linguistics, and Probus. She is the co-editor, along with Montserrat Batllori, Maria-Lluïsa Hernanz, and Francesc Roca, of Grammaticalization and Parametric Variation (OUP 2005) and has contributed chapters to several international peer-reviewed collective volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: M. Carme Picallo: Introduction: Syntactic variation and Minimalist
inquiries
* Part I: The Parametric Approach: The PP Revisited View
* 2: Luigi Rizzi: On the elements of syntactic variation
* 3: Mark Baker: Types of cross-linguistic variation in case assignment
* 4: Anders Holmberg and Ian Roberts: Parameters and the three factors
of language design
* 5: Anna Cardinaletti: Cross-linguistic variation in the syntax of
subjects
* 6: Ricardo Etxepare: Contact and change in a Minimalist theory of
variation
* 7: Michal Starke: Towards elegant parameters: Language variation
reduces to the size of lexicaly-stored trees
* Part II Variation Without Parameters
* 8: Cedric Boeckx: What Principles and Parameters got wrong
* 9: David Adger: Variability and grammatical architecture
* 10: Sjef Barbiers: Syntactic doubling and deletion as a source of
variation
* 11: M. Carme Picallo: Some concluding remarks
* References
* Index of languages and dialects
* Index of subjects