Linguistic Universals and Language Variation

Frontmatter

Pages I-IV

Table of contents

Pages V-VI

List of contributors

Pages VII-VIII

Universals and variation: an introduction

Siemund, Peter

Pages 1-20

Part 1 Varieties and cross-linguistic variation

Causal clauses: a cross-linguistic investigation of their structure, meaning, and use

Diessel, Holger / Hetterle, Katja

Pages 23-54

Two euroversals in a global perspective: auxiliation and alignment

Loporcaro, Michele

Pages 55-91

The diachronic development of article-possessor complementarity in the history of Italian and Portuguese

Kupisch, Tanja / Rinke, Esther

Pages 92-127

Variation as a window on universals

Tagliamonte, Sali A.

Pages 128-168

Part 2 Contact-induced variation

Gender and contact – a Natural Morphology perspective on Scandinavian examples

Enger, Hans-Olav

Pages 171-203

Universals of structural borrowing

Matras, Yaron

Pages 204-234

Part 3 Methodological issues of variation research

Variation and reproducibility in linguistics

Bisang, Walter

Pages 237-263

Parameters of morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes: prospects and limitations of searching for universals

Kortmann, Bernd / Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt

Pages 264-290

Comparing varieties of English: problems and perspectives

Davydova, Julia / Hilbert, Michaela / Pietsch, Lukas / Siemund, Peter

Pages 291-324

Part 4 Variation and linguistic theory

Norwegian main clause declaratives: variation within and across grammars

Eide, Kristin Melum / Sollid, Hilde

Pages 327-360

Syntactic variation and change in Romance: a Minimalist approach

Mensching, Guido / Remberger, Eva-Maria

Pages 361-403

A localistic approach to universals and variation

Joseph, Brian D.

Pages 404-424

Lexicon, phonology and phonetics. Or: rule-based and usage-based approaches to phonological variation

Hinskens, Frans

Pages 425-466

Index

Pages 467-472