Linguistic Variation in the Minimalist Framework

M. Carme Picallo is Professor at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and member of the Centre de Linguistica Teorica. Her research interests focus on syntactic theory and syntactic variation. Her publications include papers in Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Journal of Linguistics, and Probus. She is the co-editor, along with Montserrat Batllori, Maria-Lluisa Hernanz, and Francesc Roca, of Grammaticalization and Parametric Variation (OUP 2005) and has contributed chapters to several international peer-reviewed collective volumes.

1. Introduction: Syntactic variation and Minimalist inquiries, M. Carme Picallo
Part I: The Parametric Approach: The PP Revisited View
2. On the elements of syntactic variation, Luigi Rizzi
3. Types of cross-linguistic variation in case assignment, Mark Baker
4. Parameters and the three factors of language design, Anders Holmberg and Ian Roberts
5. Cross-linguistic variation in the syntax of subjects, Anna Cardinaletti
6. Contact and change in a Minimalist theory of variation, Ricardo Etxepare
7. Towards elegant parameters: Language variation reduces to the size of lexicaly-stored trees, Michal Starke
Part II Variation Without Parameters
8. What Principles and Parameters got wrong, Cedric Boeckx
9. Variability and grammatical architecture, David Adger
10. Syntactic doubling and deletion as a source of variation, Sjef Barbiers
11. Some concluding remarks, M. Carme Picallo
References
Index of languages and dialects
Index of subjects