Comparative Syntax of Balkan Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comparative Syntax of Balkan Languages write by María Luisa Rivero. This book was released on 2001. Comparative Syntax of Balkan Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of seven papers studies important aspects of the syntax of Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, and Rumanian from a comparative perspective based on current linguistic frameworks, including the Minimalist Program. Topics addressed include control, raising, and obviation, negation, noun phrase structure, clitic pronouns, and verb movement.
Comparative Syntax of Balkan Languages
Comparative Syntax of Balkan Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comparative Syntax of Balkan Languages write by María Luisa Rivero. This book was released on 2001. Comparative Syntax of Balkan Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of seven papers studies important aspects of the syntax of Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, and Romanian from a comparative perspective based on current linguistic frameworks, including the Minimalist Program. Topics addressed include control, raising, and obviation, negation, noun phrase structure, clitic pronouns, and verb movement.
Nominal Syntax at the Interfaces
Nominal Syntax at the Interfaces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nominal Syntax at the Interfaces write by Giuliana Giusti. This book was released on 2015-10-28. Nominal Syntax at the Interfaces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers a new perspective on the syntax of nominal expressions in various European languages, arguing that articles do not directly and biunivocally realise semantic definiteness. The first two chapters provide an accessible introduction to recent developments in generative syntax, namely the cartographic and minimalist approaches, by focusing on the “imperfect” parallels between clauses and nominal expressions. The third chapter shows that feature sharing is not the result of a unique syntactic process, but, rather, the consequence of Merge, which creates syntactic structure instantiating two types of relation: Selection and Modification. It argues for three different ways of transferring features: Agreement allows for an argument (an independent phase, selected by a head) to re-enter the computation as part of the predicate of the new phase. It targets Person features and is not involved in the feature sharing triggered by modification. Concord copies the features of N (notably gender, number and case, where this is present). It is the result of Modification and can coexist with Agreement. Finally, Projection is triggered by multiple internal mergers of the head, bundled with all its interpretable and uninterpretable features, which may be realized in different segments. The fourth chapter focuses on the nature of determiners such as articles, demonstratives, quantifiers, possessive adjectives and pronouns, personal pronouns and proper names, and shows that only articles have the properties to be attributed to “functional heads” because they are a segment of a scattered nominal head. The rest of the volume is devoted to the analysis of syntactic phenomena, such as double definiteness, expletive articles, and weak and strong adjectival inflection, by means of the proposal that (scattered) nominal or adjectival heads concord with their modifiers. This approach reinterprets head movement in a fashion that makes it compatible with minimalist requirements, provides an explanation for the apparent optionality of head movement, eliminates the typology of head movements by adjunction or substitution, and gives an original answer to the doubts raised about the legitimacy of the very notion of “functional category”.
Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages
Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages write by Dalina Kallulli. This book was released on 2008. Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume is a collection of articles on clitic doubling, a phenomenon that has preoccupied generative linguists since the 1980s, when its theoretical importance was noted. Clitic doubling is prevalent in the Balkan languages. However, generative studies initially dealt with its properties in Romance languages, with the Balkan patterns coming increasingly into focus. Since the mid-nineties, these patterns presented a variety of challenges to the generalisations reached on the basis of Romance, while also raising new research questions. The volume deals among other things with the following aspects of the phenomenon: its extension within and outside the Balkan Sprachbund and the observed variation; its realizational possibilities and the constraints on the status of the doubled DP (direct or indirect object, pronominal or non-pronominal); its semantics (definite, specific, presupposed, neither) and pragmatics (topic or not, D-linked or not); its temporal and locational genesis; the relationship between the clitic and its associate.
Balkan Sprachbund Morpho-Syntactic Features
Balkan Sprachbund Morpho-Syntactic Features - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Balkan Sprachbund Morpho-Syntactic Features write by Olga M. Tomic. This book was released on 2006-09-13. Balkan Sprachbund Morpho-Syntactic Features available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book discusses the morpho-syntactic Balkan Sprachbund features in nine languages in which they are most numerous. It contains a wealth of Balkan linguistic material. The focus is on displaying similarities and differences in the representation of the most widely acknowledged Balkan Sprachbund morpho-syntactic features and their interaction with other features in the structure of the DP or the sentence of individual languages.
