Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages
Title | Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages PDF eBook |
Author | I. Mackenzie |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2006-03-21 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0230627552 |
The author questions the status quo in Romance linguistics. The Ergative/Unaccusative syntactic approach has been accepted as the orthodox analytical paradigm. He re-examines both the theoretical imperative and the empirical evidence for that approach, drawing on a large amount of new and surprising data from Italian, Spanish, French and Catalan.
Grammatical Theory and Romance Languages
Title | Grammatical Theory and Romance Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Karen T. Zagona |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027236372 |
This volume presents recent theoretical research on Romance languages, selected from papers presented at the 25th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. It includes studies of individual Romance languages as well as comparative studies both within the Romance family and with non-Romance languages (Basque, Bulgarian, Germanic and Quechua). Papers in phonetics and phonology treat stress, syllable structure, s-weakening, and the declination effect. Morphological topics include class-marker suppression and gender agreement and suppletion. Topics in syntactic theory include clitics, participial and adjectival agreement, the syntax of tense, mood, negation, adjectival predication, Tough-constructions, quantification and null objects.
The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages
Title | The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Vincent Torrens |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027253013 |
This volume includes a selection of papers that address a wide range of acquisition phenomena from different Romance languages and all share a common theoretical approach based on the Principles and Parameters theory. They favour, discuss and sometimes challenge traditional explanations of first and second language acquisition in terms of maturation of general principles universal to all languages. They all depart from the view that language acquisition can be explained in terms of learning language specific rules, constraints or structures. The different parts into which this volume is organized reflect different approaches that current research has offered, which deal with issues of development of reflexive pronouns, determiners, clitics, verbs, auxiliaries, Inflection, wh-movement, rssumptive pronouns, topic and focus, mood, the syntax/discourse interface, topic and focus, and null arguments.
Romance Objects
Title | Romance Objects PDF eBook |
Author | Giuliana Fiorentino |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2011-09-08 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110919834 |
The volume brings together the papers read at the international conference on Romance Objects organized by the Linguistics Department of the Roma Tre University. It is characterized by a striking uniformity of approach, which is functional, and of methodology. The various case studies regarding the object focus on the syntax/semantics and syntax/pragmatics interfaces. The common denominator of the ten enquiries is the identification of the object category, the DO in particular, in Romance languages; at the same time some of the contributors relate the specific topic to more general questions of linguistic typology. Some of the essays are based on the analysis of data from a corpus and present a diachronic picture of the evolution of the specific topic investigated. Thus this volume is addressed not only to scholars interested in the Romance languages but also all those who study the object category in a cross-linguistic perspective. Michela Cennamo: (In)transitivity and object marking: some current issues.
Subject Inversion in Romance and the Theory of Universal Grammar
Title | Subject Inversion in Romance and the Theory of Universal Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Aafke Hulk |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2001-09-20 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0198032560 |
The Romance Languages document remarkable variations in subject word order in different constructions, and have various restrictions in their occurrence. No consensus has emerged on what the paramaters are for such variations. This volume does not attempt to create a consensus, but tries to represent and bring into dialogue the different sides of the debate.
Infinitive Constructions with Specified Subjects
Title | Infinitive Constructions with Specified Subjects PDF eBook |
Author | Guido Mensching |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2000-07-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0195343980 |
Overt subjects are usually considered as a property of finite clauses. However, most Romance languages permit specified subjects in a broad range of infinitive constructions. Guido Mensching analyzes this phenomenon in stages of French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and other Romance varieties.
Basque and Romance
Title | Basque and Romance PDF eBook |
Author | Ane Berro |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2019-05-07 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004395393 |
Aligning Grammars: Basque and Romance offers a theoretically-informed in-depth description of several linguistic structures of Basque and surrounding Romance languages. Its goal is to shed some light on the linguistic systems of these languages and their interactions.