Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘.’ in user.php

hi i’m trying to get wordpress to work on a subdomain http://dreams.neonspice.net . i’ve uploaded many times and i keep getting the same error saying:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘.’ in /home/content/n/e/o/neonspice/html/dreams/wp-includes/user.php on line 183

line 180 to 188 is as follows:

function wp_dropdown_users( $args = ” ) {
global $wpdb;
$defaults = array(
‘show_option_all’../wordpress/wp-includes/ => ”, ‘show_option_none’../wordpress/wp-includes/ => ”,
‘orderby’../wordpress/wp-includes/ => ‘display_name’, ‘order’../wordpress/wp-includes/ => ‘ASC’,
‘include’../wordpress/wp-includes/ => ”, ‘exclude’ => ”,
‘show’ => ‘display_name’, ‘echo’ => 1,
‘selected’ => 0, ‘name’ => ‘user’, ‘class’ => ”
);

any help would be appreciated! I’ve been trying all day and searching online but havent quite solved it yet.

thanks in advance!