Editor: Pierre Pica
Paperback: ISBN: Pages: 274 Price: Europe EURO 100.00
Paperback: ISBN: Pages: 274 Price: U.S. $ 120.00
Abstract:
The Linguistic Variation Yearbook is exclusively devoted to the study of the nature and scope of linguistic variation from the point of view of the minimalist program. In this perspective, the yearbook aims at going beyond the traditional tension between explanatory and descriptive adequacy. It seeks in particular to investigate to what extent the study of linguistic variation can shed light on the broader issue of language particular versus language universal properties and design. The Linguistic Variation Yearbook publishes annually a collection of (invited) articles on a theme that is current in and important to the research on linguistic variation within the generative framework. The focus is on comparative studies, such as research on typology and dialect variation.
Table of contents
Introduction Pierre Pica, Johan Rooryck and Jeroen Van Craenenbroeck v-vi
Articles
Explanation in Biolinguistics Lyle Jenkins 1-24
'Single Cycle' Languages: Implications for Cyclicity, Recursion and Acquisition Arthur Stepanov 25-71
Determiner Sharing from a Crosslinguistic Perspective Barbara Citko 73-96
Escaping the Person Case Constraint: Reference-set computation in the φ-system Milan Rezac 97-138
Object Shift, Phases, and Transitive Expletive Constructions in Germanic* Marc Richards 139-159
The Structure of Temporality and Modality: (or, Towards deriving something like a Cinque Hierarchy) Jonny Butler 161-201
Bare Infinitives in Alemannic and the Categorial Status of Infinitival Complements
Ellen Brandner 203-268
Language index 269
Subject index 271-273
Linguistic Field(s):
Sociolinguistics
Syntax
Typology
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