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Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English OXFORD STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE SYNTAX Richard S. Kayne, General Editor The Structure of CP and IP: The Cartography Comparisons and Contrasts of Syntactic Structures, Volume 2 Richard S. Kayne Edited by Luigi Rizzi Discourse-Related Features and Functional The Syntax of Anaphora Projections Ken Safir Silvio Cruschina Principles and Parameters in a VSO Language: Functional Heads: The Cartography of A Case Study in Welsh Syntactic Structures, Volume 7 Ian G. Roberts Edited by Laura Brugé, Anna Cardinaletti, Giuliana Giusti, Nicola Munaro, Cecilia Poletto Structures and Beyond: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 3 Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena Edited by Adriana Belletti and Composition of the Left Periphery: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Movement and Silence Volume 8 Richard S. 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Horn Wh-Movement, and Pied-Piping Seth Cable Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English Edited by Raffaella Zanuttini and Laurence R. Horn 1 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 © Oxford University Press 2014 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Micro-syntactic variation in North American English / edited by Raffaella Zanuttini and Laurence R. Horn. p. cm. — (Oxford studies in comparative syntax) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–19–936721–4 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978–0–19–936722–1 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978–0–19–936723–8 (ebook) — ISBN 978–0–19–936724–5 (ebook) 1. English language—Variation. 2. English language—Syntax. I. Zanuttini, Raffaella, editor of compilation. II. Horn, Laurence R., editor of compilation. III. Series: Oxford studies in comparative syntax. PE1074.7.M53 2014 427’.97—dc23 2013037171 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper CONTENTS Contributor List vii 1. North American English: Exploring the Syntactic Frontier 1 Raffaella Zanuttini 2. SO [totally] Speaker-oriented: An Analysis of “Drama SO” 29 Patricia Irwin 3. Affirmative Semantics with Negative Morphosyntax: Negative Exclamatives and the New England So AUXn’t NP/DP Construction 71 Jim Wood 4. Force, Focus, and Negation in African American English 115 Lisa Green 5. Transitive Expletives in Appalachian English 143 Raffaella Zanuttini and Judy B. Bernstein 6. The Syntax and Semantics of Personal Datives in Appalachian English 178 Corinne Hutchinson and Grant Armstrong 7. Iron Range English Reflexive Pronouns 215 Sara S. Loss 8. This Syntax Needs Studied 242 Elspeth Edelstein 9. We might should be thinking this way: Theory and Practice in the Study of Syntactic Variation 269 J. Daniel Hasty 10. Addressing the Problem of Intra-speaker Variation for Parametric Theory 294 Christina Tortora 11. Afterword: Microvariation in Syntax and Beyond 324 Laurence R. Horn Author Index 349 Subject Index 351 CONTRIBUTOR LIST Grant Armstrong University of Wisconsin–Madison Judy B. Bernstein William Paterson University Elspeth Edelstein University of Aberdeen Lisa Green University of Massachusetts Amherst Laurence R. Horn Yale University J. Daniel Hasty Coastal Carolina University Corinne Hutchinson Georgetown University Patricia Irwin University of Pennsylvania Sara S. Loss Oklahoma State University Christina Tortora City University of New York (College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center) Jim Wood Yale University Raffaella Zanuttini Yale University Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English
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