
Register Variation and Syntactic Theory
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 17:2 (2017)
Editors
[Linguistic Variation, 17:2] 2017. v, 198 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 26 January 2018
Published online on 26 January 2018
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Table of Contents
- Introducing register variation and syntactic theoryTim Stowell & Diane Massam | pp. 149–156
- Object drop and article drop in reduced written registerAndrew Weir | pp. 157–185
- On the omission of articles and copulae in German newspaper headlinesIngo Reich | pp. 186–204
- Register variation and distributional patterns in article omission in Dutch headlinesAlbert Oosterhof & Gudrun Rawoens | pp. 205–228
- Unspeakable sentences: Subject omission in written registers: a cartographic analysisLiliane Haegeman | pp. 229–250
- Subject drop in Swiss French text messagesElisabeth Stark & Aurélia Robert-Tissot | pp. 251–271
- Obligatorily null pronouns in the instructional register and beyondDiane Massam, Kazuya Bamba & Patrick Murphy | pp. 272–291
- Reduced structure in Malagasy headlinesIleana Paul | pp. 292–308
- Null arguments in old Norwegian: Interaction between pronouns and the functional categories of the clausepp. 309–346
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