Exploring Variation in Linguistic Patterns

List of Contributors

Foreword

Micro-Variation in Nominal Plural in North-Lombard and Neighbouring Rhaeto-Romance Varieties. A Phasal Approach
Leonardo M. Savoia, Benedetta Baldi, and M. Rita Manzini

A Feature Inheritance Account of Hungarian Pre-C Topics
Bálint Tóth

The Position of Preverbs in Hungarian as an Indicator of Verbalness
Zsolt Prohászka, Judit Farkas, Gábor Alberti, and Anna Szeteli

On the Non-existence of Postpositive Coordinators in Mandarin Chinese
Ting-Shiu Lin

Numeral Classifiers in Mandarin Chinese: A Comparison of Their Typologies in the Chinese and Western Linguistic Traditions
Saizhu Hu

Possessive Expressions in Old Swedish and Present-day Swedish - A Comparative Analysis
Alicja Piotrowska

Can a Bucket Be Kicked by a Man Who Kicked the Bucket? A New Insight into the Syntactic and Semantic Variability of Idioms
Anna Dąbrowska

On Formal and Functional Indeterminacy in a German Construction
Elke Diedrichsen

The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Irish Information Questions
Brian Nolan

The Role of Reduced Acceptability in Polish Linguistic Articles
Sylwiusz Żychliński