Parameters and language contact : morphosyntactic variation in Dutch dialects

We would like to thank the editors of this volume, Iván Ortega-Santos and Edita Gutiérrez Rodríguez, not only for their insightful comments and suggestions, but also for their patience and understanding. Many thanks also to the reviewers; their comments and questions have led to substantial improvements. The work reported on here is inspired by our earlier collaboration with Antal van den Bosch and it is couched within the REEDS research network on dialect syntax (FWO W002320N). The authors are listed in alphabetical order.The central issue addressed in this paper is the formal linguistic notion of parameter as a predictor for the (non-)occurrence of multiple linguistic phenomena. We start from a parametric analysis of a microvariational data set and we introduce a way of gauging the success of that analysis. At the same time, we explore to what extent language contact-operationalized here as geographical proximity-can be seen as an explanatory factor that is complementary to the parametric analysis. Methodologically, the paper advocates for the use of k-nearest neighbors classification as an interesting new technique in the linguist's toolkit.El tema central d'aquest article és la noció lingüística formal de paràmetre com a predictor de la (no) aparició de múltiples fenòmens lingüístics. Partim d'una anàlisi paramètrica d'un conjunt de dades microvariacionals i introduïm una manera de mesurar l'èxit d'aquesta anàlisi. Al mateix temps, s'explora fins a quin punt el contacte lingüístic -tractat aquí com a proximitat geogràfica- pot ser vist com un factor explicatiu complementari a l'anàlisi paramètrica. Metodològicament, l'article defensa l'ús de la classificació la classificació del veí més proper com una nova tècnica interessant del conjunt d'eines del lingüista

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