Parametric Variation
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Parametric Variation
Author: Theresa Biberauer
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2010
Parametric variation in linguistic theory refers to the systematic grammatical variation permitted by the human language faculty. This book is a defence of the parametric approach to linguistic variation, set within the framework of the Minimalist Program.
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