Abstract
This is a review of the book Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English , edited by Raffaella Zanuttini and Laurence R. Horn (Yale University). 2014. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Highlights
The present volume provides a collection of articles in which minimal differences in the syntax of varieties of English spoken in North America are analysed
The main goal of this book is precisely to characterise this variation; goal that already evidences the value of this publication, since, as it is pointed out in the introduction, it is the first one to offer systematic investigation in this regard
The justification for this publication is very clear and it is related to the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project
Summary
The present volume provides a collection of articles in which minimal differences in the syntax of varieties of English spoken in North America are analysed. Zanuttini and the rest of her team work to make the information and descriptions of different interesting constructions of US English visible and accessible.
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