Comparing varieties of English: problems and perspectives

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of contents V
3. List of contributors VII
4. Universals and variation: an introduction 1
5. Part 1 Varieties and cross-linguistic variation
6. Causal clauses: a cross-linguistic investigation of their structure, meaning, and use 23
7. Two euroversals in a global perspective: auxiliation and alignment 55
8. The diachronic development of article-possessor complementarity in the history of Italian and Portuguese 92
9. Variation as a window on universals 128
10. Part 2 Contact-induced variation
11. Gender and contact – a Natural Morphology perspective on Scandinavian examples 171
12. Universals of structural borrowing 204
13. Part 3 Methodological issues of variation research
14. Variation and reproducibility in linguistics 237
15. Parameters of morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes: prospects and limitations of searching for universals 264
16. Comparing varieties of English: problems and perspectives 291
17. Part 4 Variation and linguistic theory
18. Norwegian main clause declaratives: variation within and across grammars 327
19. Syntactic variation and change in Romance: a Minimalist approach 361
20. A localistic approach to universals and variation 404
21. Lexicon, phonology and phonetics. Or: rule-based and usage-based approaches to phonological variation 425
22. Index 467