MICROPARAMETRIC SYNTAX AND DIALECT VARIATION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- PREFATORY NOTE -- MICROPARAMETRICSYNTAX: SOME INTRODUCTORY REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- UNE ANALYSE MICROPARAMÉTRIQUE DES MOYENS DANS LES LANGUES ROMANES -- Abstract -- 0. Dela problématique de deux propriétés dites 'caractéristiques' des moyens -- 1. Dedeux analyses divergentes de la voix moyenne dans les langues romanes -- 2. Dequatre tests qui distinguent les arguments externes qui sont actifs en syntaxe de ceux qui ne le sont pas -- 3. Applicationdes tests aux moyens dans les langues romanes -- 4. Deľhypothesed'un argument externe explicite dans les moyens des langues romanes -- 5. Uneanalyse microparamétrique des moyens dans les langues romanes -- BIBLIOGRAPHIE -- TREATING THAT-TRACE VARIATION -- Introduction -- 1. The thai-trace effect in verb-second complements -- 2. The variable thai-trace effect in English -- 3. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- NEGATIVEPARTICLE QUESTIONS: A DIALECTAL COMPARISON -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Are NPQs reduced A-not-A or VP-not-V questions -- 1.1.1 Preverbal adjuncts -- 1.1.2 Co-occurrence with ma/ne -- 2. Negation Forms -- 2.1 Mandarín -- 2.2 Cantonese -- 2.3 Taiwanese -- 3. Classical Chinese -- 4. Dialectal differences in NPQs -- 5. Analysis -- 5.1 Agreement vs. non-agreement dialects -- 5.3 Content of negation -- 5.4 Extension -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix Comparison of NPQs with other kinds of yes-no questions -- REFERENCES -- IMPERATIVE INVERSION IN BELFAST ENGLISH -- Introduction -- 1. Overt-subject imperatives in Belfast English: an o -- 2. The unrestricted inversion dialect -- 3. The restricted inversion dialect -- 4. The whole-verb inversion dialect -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- SCANDINAVIAN POSSESSIVECONSTRUCTIONS FROM A NORTHERN SWEDISH VIEWPOINT -- Introduction.

1. Major and minor parameters -- 2. Postnominal possessors in Scandinavian -- 3. Sentence structure and NP structure -- 4. Why MSc does not have N-POSS -- 5. Postnominal possessors in Northern Swedish -- 6. Prenominai possessors -- 7. Possessor Shift and Object Sh -- 8. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- THE OCCASIONAL ABSENCE OF ANAPHORIC AGREEMENT IN LABRADOR INUTTUT -- Introduction -- 1. Anaphoric agreement in the Inuit language -- 1.1 A paradigm gap in Labrador Inuttut -- 2. Clause structure and the Labrador Parameter -- 2.1 Participialvs.indicative mood in Qairnirmiutut -- 2.2 The Labrador Parameter -- 3. The Labrador Parameter and anaphoric agreement. -- 3.1 NP adjunction and the indicative mood -- 4. Conclusion and implications for other analyses -- REFERENCES -- HYPOTHETICAL INFINITIVES ANDCROSSLINGUISTIC VARIATIONS INCONTINENTAL AND QUEBEC FRENCH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Base generation vs. movement to Topic position -- 3. Hypothetical Infinitives project to the Complementizer Phrase -- 3.1 Arguments from the internal struc -- 3.2 Free alternation with si-conditional clauses -- 4. Hypothetical Infinitives as finite clauses -- 4.1 Hypothetical Complementizers carry [+qu] features -- 4.2 V-to-I-to-C and non-finitene ss -- 5. Finiteness from abstract modals -- 5.1 Kayne's (1992) abstract modal -- 5.2 A temporal operator -- 5.3 Hypothetical Infinitives with de -- 6. Cross-linguistic variation: the licensing of null subjects -- 6.1 Evidence for pro-drop in QF -- 6.2 Expletive pro in QF -- 6.3 The null subject parameter in QF HI clauses -- 6.4 Final remarks -- REFERENCES -- THE SECOND PERSON SINGULARINTERROGATIVE IN THE TRADITIONALVERNACULAR OF THE BOLTONMETROPOLITAN AREA -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Second person pronouns -- 3. Phonology and morphology of cliticized second person singular interrogative forms incorporating the pronoun.

4. Distribution of cliticized interrogative forms -- 5. Historical background -- 6. Earlier scholarship -- 7. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- REFLEXIVES PRONOUNS AND SUBJECT/VERB AGREEMENT IN ICELANDIC AND FAROESE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Subject /verb agreement -- 2.1. Feature checking and movement to SPEC -- 2.2. The syntax ofρ redication -- 2.3. Oblique subjects and subject/verb agreement -- 2.4. Nominative subjects and subject/verb agreement -- 2.5. Icelandic object/verb agreement -- 2.6. Summary -- 3. Reflexives and pronouns -- 3.1. sig cannot be a nominative object -- 3.2. Sig and Economy of Representation -- 3.3. A surprising case of bound non-reflexive pronouns -- 3.4. Summary -- 4. Icelandic vs Faroese -- 4.1. The contrasts -- 4.2. A single parameter ? -- 4.3. Summary -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ADVERBIAL QUANTIFIERS AND DIALECTAL VARIATION IN A MINIMALIST FRAMEWORK -- Introduction -- 1. Adverbial quantifiers in Quebec French -- 2. Lexical properties of adverbial quantifiers -- 2.1 Adjectival-quantifiers -- 2.2. The inner structure of adjectival-quantifiers -- 3. NEG as a licenser for benben -- 3.1 The syntactic domain of benben -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- VERB CLUSTERS IN CONTINENTAL WEST GERMANIC DIALECTS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Verb clusters in Continental West Germanic -- 3. Analysis of the verb clusters from an OV point of view -- 4. Analysis of the verb clusters from a VO point of view -- 5. Patterns of optional movement -- 6. Patterns in the word order variation. -- 7. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- GENERAL INDEX.