caa a22 4500 388058749 CHVBK 20180307125114.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199803 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0954394500001198 doi S0954394500001198 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0954394500001198 Cornips Leonie Meertens Institute Syntactic variation, parameters, and social distribution [Elektronische Daten] [Leonie Cornips] This article concerns the interrelation between the theoretical status and the social dimensions of syntactic variation in Heerlen Dutch. I discuss syntactic variation in Heerlen Dutch, which consists of (i) a range of dative constructions that are acceptable in the Heerlen dialect but unacceptable in Standard Dutch and (ii) Standard Dutch variants of the dative constructions that are rare in the Heerlen dialect. The theoretical primitive causing syntactic variation is taken to be the different values or settings of a parameter. Although all local dialect constructions in Heerlen Dutch seem superficially similar because they are construed with a dative NP or the reflexive zich, I argue that these constructions must be attributed to two distinct parameters. The different social distributions of dative constructions in Heerlen Dutch are a confirmation that two distinct parameters are involved. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Language Variation and Change Cambridge University Press 10/1(1998-03), 1-21 0954-3945 10:1<1 1998 10 LVC https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394500001198 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394500001198 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cornips Leonie Meertens Institute NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Language Variation and Change Cambridge University Press 10/1(1998-03), 1-21 0954-3945 10:1<1 1998 10 LVC CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge