Linguistic Variation in the Minimalist Framework

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-878357-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 437 g

In this book, leading scholars consider the ways in which syntactic variation can be accounted for in a minimalist framework. They explore the theoretical significance, content, and role of parameters; whether or not variation should be strongly or weakly accounted for by syntactic factors; and the explicitness - or lack thereof - that should be assumed with respect to the conditions imposed by narrow syntax.

The book is divided into two parts. The first part contains chapters that consider the term 'parameter' to be a relevant theoretical notion under minimalist tenets. In the second part, on the other hand, chapters either argue that the term parameter amounts to no more than a label to describe variation, or assign it a less prominent role. Instead, language variation is attributed to sociolinguistic factors, language contact, frequency of use, or simply to options in the externalization of abstract syntactic relations.

The book offers a valuable overview of the different approaches adopted in the study of language variation phenomena, and will appeal to theoretical linguists of all persuasions from graduate level upwards.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Picallo, M. Carme

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.