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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.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
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.
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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.
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Review from previous edition this book forces the reader to rethink syntax from the ground up and provides a valuable overview and interesting empirical coverage of a rich area of research ... this volume can have far-reaching consequences and inspire future research ... I strongly recommend it to any linguist or specialist interested in the subject.
