On three types of dialect variation and their implications for linguistic theory. Evidence from verb clusters in Swiss German dialects

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Dialectology and typology – An integrative perspective 11
5. Local markedness as a heuristic tool in dialectology: The case of amn’t 47
6. Non-standard evidence in syntactic typology – Methodological remarks on the use of dialect data vs spoken language data 69
7. The typology of motion and posture verbs: A variationist account 93
8. Dynamic typology and vernacular universals 127
9. Definite articles in Scandinavian: Competing grammaticalization processes in standard and non-standard varieties 147
10. Person marking in Dutch dialects 181
11. A typology of relative clauses in German dialects 211
12. Do as a tense and aspect marker in varieties of English 245
13. Typology, dialectology and the structure of complementation in Romani 277
14. Problems for typology: Perfects and resultatives in spoken and non-standard English and Russian 305
15. Comparing grammatical variation phenomena in non-standard English and Low German dialects from a typological perspective 335
16. On three types of dialect variation and their implications for linguistic theory. Evidence from verb clusters in Swiss German dialects 367
17. Substrate, superstrate and universals: Perfect constructions in Irish English 401
18. The impact of language contact and social structure on linguistic structure: Focus on the dialects of Modern Greek 435
19. Jespersen’s cycle and the interaction of predicate and quantifier negation in Flemish 453
20. “Gendered” pronouns in English dialects – A typological perspective 479
21. Population linguistics on a micro-scale. Lessons to be learnt from Baltic and Slavic dialects in contact 497
22. Backmatter 527