Linguistic Universals and Language Variation

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of contents
• List of contributors
• Universals and variation: an introduction
• Part 1 Varieties and cross-linguistic variation
  • Causal clauses: a cross-linguistic investigation of their structure, meaning, and use
  • Two euroversals in a global perspective: auxiliation and alignment
  • The diachronic development of article-possessor complementarity in the history of Italian and Portuguese
  • Variation as a window on universals
• Part 2 Contact-induced variation
  • Gender and contact – a Natural Morphology perspective on Scandinavian examples
  • Universals of structural borrowing
• Part 3 Methodological issues of variation research
  • Variation and reproducibility in linguistics
  • Parameters of morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes: prospects and limitations of searching for universals
  • Comparing varieties of English: problems and perspectives
• Part 4 Variation and linguistic theory
  • Norwegian main clause declaratives: variation within and across grammars
  • Syntactic variation and change in Romance: a Minimalist approach
  • A localistic approach to universals and variation
  • Lexicon, phonology and phonetics. Or: rule-based and usage-based approaches to phonological variation
• Index