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Title Studies in historical Ibero-Romance morpho-syntax / edited by Miriam Bouzouita, Ioanna Sitaridou, Enrique Pato
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 340 pages)
Series Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics (IHLL), 2213-3887 ; volume 16
Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics ; v. 16.
Contents Intro; Studies in Historical Ibero-Romance Morpho-Syntax; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; 1. Some introductory reflections; 1. General overview; 2. Individual contributions; 3. Coda; Reference; 2. Velar allomorphy in Ibero-Romance; 1. Introduction; 2. Brief explanation as to the origin of velar allomorphy in Ibero-Romance; 3. Velar allomorphy in Old Spanish A purely morphological/morphomic account based on allomorphic endings
4. Evidence for the velar element being morphologically parsed as belonging to the inflectional endings in Old Spanish but then possibly part of the root in Modern Spanish5. The N-pattern morphome; 6. The clash of the morphomes; 6.1 The creation of the L>>N-pattern; 7. Conclusions and implications; 7.1 Conclusion; References; Appendix; 155 in total; 3. The history of concatenative compounds in Spanish; 1. Introduction; 2. Background; 2.1 Concatenative compounding in historical perspective; 2.2 The Latin origins of the linking vowel -i-; 3. Concatenative compounding in Spanish
3.1 Types of concatenative compounds3.2 History of concatenative compounds in Spanish; 4. Methodology: Sources, data collection, classification and quantification; 5. Findings; 5.1 Frequency of structural patterns in Spanish concatenative compounds; 5.2 Structural variability of concatenative compounds; 5.3 Historical relationship between concatenative compound variants; 6. An alternative hypothesis; 7. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 4. Intersubjectification and textual emphasis in the use of definite article + proper name in Spanish; 1. Introduction
2. From the Latin distal demonstrative ille to the definite article3. Definite article + proper name in present-day Spanish; 4. The definite article as a marker of discourse prominence; 5. The recognitional use of definite article + proper name; 6. Conclusions; References; Corpus; 5. Stylistic fronting in Old Spanish texts; 1. Introduction; 2. Textual evidence; 2.1 Subject gap; 2.2 Initial position in main sentences; 2.3 Subordinate sentences; 3. Focus meaning?; 4. Stylistic fronting in main clauses; 5. Split phrases and analytical futures; 6. Stylistic fronting in subordinate clauses
7. Summary and conclusionsReferences; Corpus; 6. The dative experiencer of Spanish gustar; 1. Introduction; 2. The historical development of gustar; 2.1 The physical sense of taste; 2.2 Extension to the mental world; 2.3 The syntactic shift; 3. Construals of mental events; 3.1 Gustar vs.amar; 3.2 Gustar vs. querer; 3.3 Gustar and placer; 4. The change and its motivation; 4.1 The initial contexts; 4.2 Generalisation of the dative construction with gustar; 5. The 'liking' verbs with a human stimulus; 6. Conclusions; References; Corpus
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 16, 2018)
Subject Romance languages -- Morphosyntax
Romance languages -- Grammar, Historical
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- French.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Romance Languages (Other)
Romance languages -- Grammar, Historical
Form Electronic book
Author Bouzouita, Miriam, editor
Sitaridou, Ioanna, editor
Pato, Enrique, editor
LC no. 2017061464
ISBN 9789027264312
9027264317