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Locus and limits of syntactic microvariation
Lingua, 2009Abstract A central hypothesis of the Minimalist Program is that syntactic principles are constant across languages. Apparent syntactic variation would be reducible to variation in the lexicon, in particular variation in morphosyntactic features, and variation at the level of phonological interpretation (PF), in particular in the way syntactic ...
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Microvariation in null subject languages
2010This chapter focuses on linguistic variation within Romance languages, providing a reinterpretation of Uriagereka’s (1988a; 1995a; 1995b) FP, a left peripheral projection whose role is parasitic on language specific morphological properties. In the context of Phase Theory, I suggest to recast FP as a property of phase heads boosting their left ...
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Microvariation in verbal rather
Linguistic VariationAbstract This paper uses survey results to analyze patterns of judgments across different versions of the non-standard verbal use of the word rather, which can take participial morphology, as in rathered. Across numerous possible instantiations of the construction, there appear to be in fact a ...
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