The study of letter writing is at the heart of the historical-sociolinguistic enterprise. Private
letters, in particular, offer an unprecedented view on language history. This book presents …

Several proposals suggest a φ-feature dependency between C 0 and T 0 (see, eg,,). In most
(if not all) of these proposals, the core piece of empirical evidence is complementizer …

CLARIN is the short name for the Common Language Resources and Technology
Infrastructure, which aims at providing easy and sustainable access for scholars in the …

Hierarchical structure has been cherished as a grammatical universal. We use experimental
methods to show where linear order is also a relevant syntactic relation. An identical …

Complementizers agree in phi‐features with the embedded subject in dialects of German
and Dutch, in Tense with the embedded clause in Irish and in phi‐features with the matrix …

This research investigates the morpho-syntactic behaviour of the Arabic complementizer
ʔinn in a range of Arabic varieties (Modern Standard Arabic, Jordanian Arabic, and …

This article is a case study in how quantitative-statistical and formal-theoretical (generative)
approaches to language variation can be combined. We provide a quantitative analysis of …

This book presents a study of the acquisition of verbal and adjectival agreement inflection in
typically developing, monolingual Dutch children. The author shows that Dutch children …

This paper explores the different ways in which speakers of Limburgian think and feel about
sociopragmatic pronouns in their dialect, in which women can traditionally be referred to …

The study of sociolinguistic variation and change, which began with William Labov's work on
English phonetic variables in Massachusetts and New York in the 1960s (Labov 1963 …