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 vs. 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.

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Reconstruction in Relative Clauses and the Copy Theory of Traces Carlo Cecchetto

Syntactic Variation in German Wh-Questions: Empirical investigations of weak crossover violations and long wh-movement Gisbert Fanselow, Reinhold Kliegl and Matthias Schlesewsky

Relativization Strategies in Temporal Adjunct Clauses Anikó Lipták

Microvariations in Harmony and Value-Relativized Parametrization Andrew Ira Nevins

Two Types of Resumptive Pronouns in Polish Relative Clauses Adam Szczegielniak

Microparameters for Norwegian Wh-Grammars Øystein Alexander Vangsnes

Extending the Extension Condition to Discontinuous Idioms Peter Svenonius

On Productivity Charles Yang