Linguistic Variation in a Minimalist Framework

In this book, leading scholars in the field tackle a variety of current issues in linguistic variation from a minimalist perspective, including the role of parameters, the significance of syntactic factors in language variation, and the conditions imposed by narrow syntax.

M. Carme Picallo is Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and member of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica. Her research interests focus on syntactic theory and syntactic variation. Her publications include papers in Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Journal of Linguistics, and Probus. She is the co-editor, along with Montserrat Batllori, Maria-Lluïsa Hernanz, and Francesc Roca, of Grammaticalization and Parametric Variation (OUP 2005) and has contributed chapters to several international peer-reviewed collective volumes.