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Special issue on English dialect syntax

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2007

GRAEME TROUSDALE  and
DAVID ADGER
GRAEME TROUSDALE
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
DAVID ADGER
Affiliation:
Queen Mary, University of London
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Abstract

This special volume is concerned with the syntax of nonstandard varieties of (mainly British) English, and how such syntactic variation is accounted for within a range of theoretical models. There has been a growing interest in the modelling of dialect syntax (a) in a number of languages and (b) in a number of syntactic theories (see, for instance, the research on syntactic microvariation in some Germanic languages in Barbiers, Cornips & van der Kelij, 2002, or the construction-based approach to variation in Leino & Östman, 2005). We have brought together five articles written in different theoretical frameworks (Principles and Parameters, Stochastic Optimality Theory, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Word Grammar, and Construction Grammar), together with an introduction written by the editors, who themselves adopt very different theoretical frameworks.

Type
Research Article
Information
English Language & Linguistics , Volume 11 , Issue 2: Special issue on English dialect syntax , July 2007 , pp. 257 - 259
Copyright
Cambridge University Press 2007

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