North American English, exploring the syntactic frontier / Raffaella Zanuttini -- SO [totally] speaker oriented: an analysis of "drama SO" / Patricia Irwin -- Affirmative semantics with negative morphosyntax: negative exclamatives and the New England so AUXn't NP/DP construction / Jim Wood -- Force, focus, and negation in African American English / Lisa Green -- Transitive expletives in Appalachian English / Raffaella Zanuttini and Judy B. Bernstein -- The syntax and semantics of personal datives in Appalachian English / Corinne Hutchinson and Grant Armstrong -- Iron range English reflexive pronouns / Sara S. Loss -- This syntax needs studied / Elspeth Edelstein -- We might should be thinking this way: theory and practice in the study of syntactic variation / J. Daniel Hasty -- Addressing the problem of intra-speaker variation for parametric theory / Christina Tortora -- Afterword: Microvariation in syntax and beyond / Laurence R. Horn.
Summary:
Comparative work on linguistic varieties that are overall very similar can help us determine where and how exactly grammatical systems differ from one another, and how they change over time. This book explores a range of data on unfamiliar constructions across regional and social dialects.
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