Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Chapter 1. Free variation, unexplained variation? 1
4. Section 1. Identifying and measuring free variation
5. Chapter 2. How free is the position of German object pronouns? 22
6. Chapter 3. Optionality in the syntax of Germanic traditional dialects 48
7. Chapter 4. Non-verbal plural number agreement. Between the distributive plural and singular 74
8. Chapter 5. ‘Optional’ direct objects: Free variation? 99
9. Section 2. Free variation and language change
10. Chapter 6. Variation and change in the Aanaar Saami conditional perfect 168
11. Chapter 7. Stability of inflectional variation 202
12. Chapter 8. Resemanticising ‘free’ variation 229
13. Section 3. Free variation? Look harder!
14. Chapter 9. Syntactic priming and individual preferences 260
15. Chapter 10. Optionality, variation and categorial properties 284
16. Chapter 11. Variation of deontic constructions in spoken Catalan 315
17. Index 351