Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian.

Intro -- Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1. Background -- 2. The data -- 3. Descriptive topics -- 4. Theoretical and comparative issues -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- On quantity and quality in syntactic variation studies: On quantity and quality in syntactic variation studies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Doing large scale studies to avoid the Forrest Gump Effect -- 3. Relative judgments and absolute judgments can complement each other -- 4. Correlations between judgments - and limits of strictly parametric approaches -- 5. Is Faroese moving away from Insular Scandinavian? -- 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- Variation in oblique subject constructions in Insular Scandinavian: Variation in oblique subject constructions in Insular Scandinavian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 3. Variation in subject case in Icelandic -- 4. Variation in subject case in Faroese -- 5. Two apparent puzzles -- 6. The implications of the development of case marking -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Determining the nature of intra-speaker subject case variation: Determining the nature of intra-speaker subject case variation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous studies: Major findings and unsolved problems -- 3. Study -- 4. Results -- 5. Analysis -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Variation in dative in Faroese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dative in Faroese - A short overview -- 3. Method -- 4. Does the variation depend on the form of the NP? -- 5. Does the semantics of the verbs play a role? -- 6. The case assignment of borrowed verbs -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Avoiding Genitive in Icelandic -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. GA with arguments -- 4. Dative matching genitive -- 5. Conclusion -- References.

Dimensions of variation: Agreement with nominative objects in Icelandic -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background and overview of the data -- 3. Intervention effects -- 4. A detailed look at agreement variation -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Inverse attraction in Icelandic relative clauses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview and background -- 3. Sketching an analysis -- 4. Survey design -- 5. Results -- 6. Interpreting the results -- 7. Conclusion and future directions -- References -- Appendix A. Attested Examples -- Appendix B. Survey Items -- Appendix C. Instructions -- Variation in copular agreement in Insular Scandinavian: Variation in copular agreement in Insular Scandinavian -- 1. Introduction: Agreement with low nominatives in Insular Scandinavian -- 2. Specificational sentences -- 3. Specificational agreement in Faroese -- 4. Specificational agreement in Icelandic: Number -- 5. Specificational agreement in Icelandic: Person -- 6. Accounting for agreement in specificational sentences -- 7. Summary and future work -- References -- Stylistic fronting and related constructions in the Insular Scandinavian Languages: Stylistic fronting and related constructions in the Insular Scandinavian Languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Judgment data -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Final remarks -- References -- Stylistic fronting in corpora -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Timarit.is and Google Search -- 3. Two different Stylistic Fronting contexts -- 4. Clauses with a subject trace ("personal" clauses) -- 5. Clauses with a non-trace subject gap (impersonal clauses) -- 6. Idiomatization? -- 7. And when "nothing" happens? -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Index.

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