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Title Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax / Andreas Dufter, Elisabeth Stark
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (977 pages)
Series Manuals of Romance Linguistics = Manuels de linguistique romane = Manuali di liguistica romanza = Manueles de lingüística románica ; Volume 17
Manuals of romance linguistics ; Volume 17.
Contents Frontmatter -- Manuals of Romance Linguistics / Holtus, Günter / Miret, Fernando Sánchez -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction / Dufter, Andreas / Stark, Elisabeth -- The verbal domain -- 2. Subjects / Lobo, Maria / Martins, Ana Maria -- 3. Objects / Sitaridou, Ioanna -- 4. Argument structure and argument structure alternations / Waltereit, Richard -- 5. Clitic pronouns / Heap, David / Oliviéri, Michèle / Palasis, Katerina -- 6. Voice and voice alternations / Hofherr, Patricia Cabredo -- 7. Auxiliaries / Legendre, Géraldine -- 8. Causative and perception verbs / Labelle, Marie -- 9. Copular and existential constructions / Bentley, Delia -- The clausal and sentential domains -- 10. Infinitival clauses / Mensching, Guido -- 11. Tense, aspect, mood / Lindschouw, Jan -- 12. Negation and polarity / Larrivée, Pierre -- 13. Dislocations and framings / Frascarelli, Mara -- 14. Focus Fronting / Cruschina, Silvio / Remberger, Eva-Maria -- 15. Cleft constructions / Cesare, Anna-Maria De -- 16. Interrogatives / Kellert, Olga -- 17. Exclamatives, imperatives, optatives / Villalba, Xavier -- 18. Coordination and correlatives / López, Cristina Sánchez -- The nominal domain -- 19. Gender and number / Pomino, Natascha -- 20. Determination and quantification / Vincent, Nigel -- 21. Adjectival and genitival modification / Fábregas, Antonio -- 22. Relative clauses / Poletto, Cecilia / Sanfelici, Emanuela -- Typological aspects -- 23. Syntheticity and Analyticity / Ledgeway, Adam -- 24. Basic constituent orders / Leonetti, Manuel -- List of Contributors -- Index
Summary This volume offers theoretically informed surveys of topics that have figured prominently in morphosyntactic and syntactic research into Romance languages and dialects. We define syntax as being the linguistic component that assembles linguistic units, such as roots or functional morphemes, into grammatical sentences, and morphosyntax as being an umbrella term for all morphological relations between these linguistic units, which either trigger morphological marking (e.g. explicit case morphemes) or are related to ordering issues (e.g. subjects precede finite verbs whenever there is number agreement between them). All 24 chapters adopt a comparative perspective on these two fields of research, highlighting cross-linguistic grammatical similarities and differences within the Romance language family. In addition, many chapters address issues related to variation observable within individual Romance languages, and grammatical change from Latin to Romance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Sep 2017)
Subject Romance languages -- Syntax
Romance languages -- Morphosyntax
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
Romance languages -- Syntax
Romanische Sprachen
Morphosyntax
Syntax
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Dufter, Andreas, editor
Stark, Elisabeth, editor
ISBN 9783110393422
3110393425