Variation in English syntax: theoretical implications

English Cleft Constructions : Corpus Findings and Theoretical Implications ∗

The paper presents a structural analysis of three clefts constructions in English. The three constructions all provide unique options for presenting 'salient' discourse information in a particular serial order. The choice of one rather than another of these three clefts is determined by various formal and pragmatic factors. This paper reports the findings for these three types of English cleft ...

The Syntax of Verb Movement in Middle English: Dialect Variation and Language Contact

The way - construction and cross - linguistic variation in syntax . Implications for typological theory

Intonational variation in Liverpool English

This paper investigates intonational variation in Liverpool English, a dialect of British English that is recognised as having a number of distinctive phonetic characteristics [15, 16]. One previously reported aspect of Liverpool intonation is the presence of rising contours in declaratives as part of the traditional dialect [7]. Here we present a phonological Autosegmental Metrical analysis [9...

Variation in Jewish English intonation

Intonation in Jewish English may have had influence from Yiddish (Weinreich 1956; Benor 2004). However, previous studies of Jewish English intonation have been either nonsystematic or not explicitly focused on variation according to exposure to Yiddish, so the current case for Yiddish substrate influence is weak. This study aims to give a more formal description of one particular phrase-final r...