Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation.

Intro -- Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. General overview: Current trends in language variation and aims of this volume -- 2. Language variation and the notion of interface -- 3. On the relationship between language variation and language change -- 4. The single contributions -- References -- Germanic and Romance Onset Clusters - how to account for microvariation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Consonant clusters and the sonority sequencing principle -- 3. Onset clusters in Standard German and in Southern Bavarian varieties -- 3.1 Standard German -- 3.2 The Tyrolean dialects, Mòcheno, and Lusern Cimbrian -- 4. Standard Italian and the Trentino dialects -- 5. An analysis of dialectal microvariation -- 5.1 A typology of sonority distance in onset clusters -- 5.2 Alternative analyses of minimal grammatical difference -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Adverb and participle agreement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Status quaestionis in Romance -- 2.1 Adverbs in southern Italian dialects -- 2.2 Adjectival adverbs, adverbial adjectives -- 3. Adverb agreement in southern Italian dialects -- 3.1 The dialects of the 'Lausberg Area' -- 3.2 Transitives -- 3.2.1 A subject-adverb agreement pattern? -- 3.3 Unaccusatives -- 3.4 Unergatives -- 3.5 Interim summary -- 4. Effects on past participle agreement -- 4.1 The general picture -- 4.2 Insertion of the adjectival adverbs -- 5. Towards a structural interpretation -- 5.1 Agreement of non-metaphonic participles -- 5.2 Notes on the roots bon- and mal- -- 5.3 Adverb and participle agreement in Parameter Hierarchies -- 6. Conclusive remarks and remaining questions -- Appendix -- References -- Why a bed can be slept in but not under -- Introduction: The class of English prepositional verbs*.

1. Extracting from inside the PP: Wh- vs DP-extraction -- 2. Tackling (V+P): Reanalysis -- 2.1 The problems with Reanalysis -- 3. Incorporation "without" incorporation -- 3.1 Baker (1988) on PPass -- 3.2 A little diatopic variation: P-Stranding in Northern German and Dutch -- 4. Breaking down vP -- 4.1 Are applied objects "more object-like" than canonical objects? -- 4.2 The level of affectedness -- 4.3 The basic structure of PVs -- 4.4 The odd men out: Non-passivizing PVs -- 4.6 Variation in applicative constructions -- Conclusions -- References -- On the variable nature of head final effects in German and English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The HFF as a syntactic condition -- 3. On the mapping between syntactic and prosodic structure -- 3.1 Background Information -- 3.2 Prosodic domain formation in a phase-based approach -- 3.3 Syntactic structure and default prominence -- 3.4 Further operations in phonology proper -- 4. The HFF as a metrical condition -- 5. The HFF as a morphological condition -- 6. Additional HF-effects in the German v-domain -- 7. HF-Effects and the FOFC -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Variation and change in Italian phonology -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The Latin and Italian segment inventories -- 1.2 Phasing processes -- 2. Theoretical background -- 2.1 Learning as constraint demotion -- 2.2 Opacity as a motor of lexical innovation -- 2.3 Constraint cloning -- 3. To input irrecoverability…and beyond -- 3.1 The emergence of velar palatalization -- 3.2 Constructing and breaking a chain -- 3.3 Borrowing with an already unstable grammar -- 3.4 Restructuring of the input leads to reorganization of the grammar -- 3.5 On the productivity of velar palatalization and the life cycle of constraint rankings -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Which clues for which V2 -- 1. Introduction.

2. The properties of the CP in Old Italian -- 3. The properties of the vP phase in OI -- 4. Scrambling to the DP left periphery -- 5. Structural genitive and residual N to d -- 6. Scrambling in the AdjP -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Parameter typology from a diachronic perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 2. CI in Contemporary English -- 3. Pre-20th-century Modern English (1700 onwards) -- 4. Early Modern English (mid-15th to 18th century) -- 5. Old and Middle English (450-1150CE and 1150 to 1550CE) -- 6. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Attrition at the interfaces in bilectal acquisition (Italian/Gallipolino) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The double complementation system in Gallipolino -- 3. Study on ku- and ka-constructions in migrant speakers of Gallipolino -- 3.1 Stimuli -- 3.2 Participants -- 3.3 Procedure -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Results for grammatical and ungrammatical sentences -- 4.2 Sequential bilectals vs. simultaneous bilectals -- 4.3 Passive bilectals vs. active bilectals -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Little v and cross-linguistic variation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Evidence of the light verb's grammatical roles -- 3. Linearization -- 4. Sranan/Dutch switching -- 5. Creole clause structure -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- On language acquisition and language change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The adult grammars: An overview -- 2.1 The socio-linguistic context -- 2.2 Subject pronouns and pro-drop -- 2.2.1 Subject pronouns in Mòcheno: A three-way classification -- 2.2.2 Syntactic and discourse properties of subject pronominal forms -- 2.3 A brief comparison with contact Romance varieties -- 3. Subject pronouns in Mòcheno preschool children -- 3.1 Population and sociolinguistic situation -- 3.2 Data collection and participants -- 4. Subject pronouns in children's production.

4.1 Setting the pro-drop parameter -- 4.2 Syntactic and discourse factors -- 5. Discussion of results -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Index.

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