Includes bibliographical references and index.

Doubling as splitting / Cecilia Poletto -- Doubling of clitics and doubling by clitics : the case of negation / M. Rita Manzini -- Doubling vs. omision : insights from Afrikaans negation / Theresa Biberauer -- Tyrolean a-bar movement : doubling and resumptive pronoun structures / Birgit Alber -- Tense/mood/aspect-doubling / Anna-Lena Wiklund -- "Double" floating quantifiers in modern Greek and Pontic / Vina Tsakali -- Pronominal doubling in Dutch dialects : big DPs and coordinations / Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Marjo van Koppen -- On geographical adequacy, or how many types of subject doubling in Dutch / Gunther De Vogelaer and Magda Devos -- Pleonastic Tet in West Flemish and the cartography of subject positions / Liliane Haegeman -- Beyond doubling : overt expletives in European Portuguese dialects / Ernestina Carrilho -- Subject doubling in Finnish : the role of deficient pronouns / Anders Holmberg and Urpo Nikanne -- Patterns of doubling in Alemannic / Ellen Brandner -- The possessor that appears twice : variation, structure and function of possessive doubling in German / Helmut Wei� -- Preposition reduplication in Icelandic / J�ohannes G�isli J�onsson -- On peripheral doubling in Scandinavian / �ystein Alexander Vangsnes -- Variation in clitic-doubling in South Slavic / Olga Mi�seska Tomi�c.

Syntactic doubling is the phenomenon in which a constituent, i.e., a morphosyntactic feature, morpheme, word or phrase, is expressed two or more times within a clause. Since such duplicates are often redundant in that they do not contribute to semantic interpretation, the question arises as to why they are possible or necessary. This theoretical question becomes even more urgent in view of the fact that closely related language varieties such as the dialects of one dialect family often differ with respect to the possibility of doubling. This book puts together seventeen papers on microvariation in syntactic doubling that deal with such theoretical issues. They provide a rich overview of the syntactic doubling phenomena attested so far and of the theoretical analyses that are currently available.The syntactic doubling phenomena discussed include, among others, subject pronoun doubling, WH pronoun doubling, possessive pronoun doubling, clitic doubling, expletive subjects, tense, mood and aspect doubling, auxiliary doubling, preposition doubling and negation doubling. Language varieties discussed in this book include Afrikaans, Alemannic, Bavarian, Tyrolean German, dialects of Dutch, dialects of Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Faroese, colloquial Icelandic, colloquial Finnish, colloquial European and Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Argentinian Spanish, dialects of Italian, Rumanian, Albanian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Pontic, Macedonian and Modern Greek.

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