Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Section I. Dialectology
5. Chapter 1. The syntactic tradition in the Spanish linguistic atlases 15
6. Chapter 2. Using linguistic atlases to explore syntactic issues 35
7. Chapter 3. The negative expressions in three dialectal repertoires 77
8. Chapter 4. A microsyntactic study of Pyrenean negative emphatic polarity particles with the help of data from linguistic atlases 109
9. Section II. Current perspectives on variation
10. Chapter 5. Syntactic features and dialect areas in European Spanish 149
11. Chapter 6. Feature analysis of neuter gender in Spanish and Asturian languages 175
12. Chapter 7. Parameters of clitic combination 203
13. Chapter 8. Gerund structures in Ecuadorian Spanish 225
14. Chapter 9. On the role of prosody in wh -in-situ 263
15. Section III. New tools to approach syntactic variation
16. Chapter 10. ASinEs 297
17. Chapter 11. The Corpus del español del siglo XXI ( CORPES XXI ) 319
18. Chapter 12. Using Twitter to build a corpus for linguistic variation 347
19. Language index 381
20. Subject index 383