Formal Approaches to Romance Morphosyntax - 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 Formal Approaches to Romance Morphosyntax write by Marc-Olivier Hinzelin. This book was released on 2020-11-23. Formal Approaches to Romance Morphosyntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent years have witnessed a (re)surfacing of interest on the interaction of morphology and syntax. For many grammatical phenomena, it is not easy to draw a dividing line between syntactic and morphological structure. This has led to the assumption that syntax is the module responsible not only for deriving syntactically complex phrases but also for deriving morphologically complex items, both in inflection and word formation. There are however also good reasons to think that syntax is not involved in all morphological processes and that there are consistent areas of morphology that are independent from syntactic processes. This book presents a collection of papers where phenomena from Romance languages and varieties are analysed under contrasting views on how morphology and syntax interact. All the contributions follow the aim to investigate what the analysed phenomena tell us about their structural make‐up and the grammatical processes involved.
Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax
Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax - 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 Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax write by Andreas Dufter. This book was released on 2017-09-25. Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Grammaticalization
Grammaticalization - 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 Grammaticalization write by Jurgen Klausenburger. This book was released on 2000-03-15. Grammaticalization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this monograph, various aspects of the morphosyntactic evolution of the Romance languages are shown to interact in a theory of grammaticalization. The study argues for the incorporation and subordination of inflectional morphology within a grammaticalization continuum, constituting but a portion of the latter. Parameters of natural morphology are seen as principles of grammaticalization, but the reverse is also true, rendering grammaticalization and natural morphology indistinguishable. In the context of this theoretical framework, Chapter 2 deals with Latin, French, and Italian verbal inflection, focusing on universal and system-dependent parameters of natural morphology. In Chapter 3, a theory of grammaticalization is built on divergent elements, including not only grammaticalization studies proper, but also the perception/production line of inquiry, and typology and branching issues, permitting the phasing out of the traditional synthesis/analyis cycle. Chapter 4 touches on nominal inflection, in particular that of Old French and Rumanian, the most revealing histories in the Romance domain. Chapter 5, finally, thoroughly discusses extant theoretical questions in grammaticalization, prominently featuring the relevance of ‘invisible hand’ explanations and the crucial role played by unidirectionality. This study will be of interest to specialists in Romance and historical linguistics, as well as morphological theory.
Objects and Subjects in the Formation of Romance Morphosyntax
Objects and Subjects in the Formation of Romance Morphosyntax - 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 Objects and Subjects in the Formation of Romance Morphosyntax write by Nunzio La Fauci. This book was released on 1994. Objects and Subjects in the Formation of Romance Morphosyntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Comparative and Diachronic Perspectives on Romance Syntax
Comparative and Diachronic Perspectives on Romance Syntax - 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 and Diachronic Perspectives on Romance Syntax write by Gabriela Pană Dindelegan. This book was released on 2018-04-18. Comparative and Diachronic Perspectives on Romance Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume brings together fifteen papers focusing on the morphosyntax of different Romance varieties. It is based on papers presented at the workshop bearing the same title held at the University of Bucharest in November 2015 and is dedicated to Professor Martin Maiden of the University of Oxford in honour of his 60th birthday. The contributions tackle different theoretical issues concerning current linguistic theory (relevant both for comparative and diachronic approaches), including parameters, features and their hierarchical organization, word order changes, the level of verb movement in different varieties, inflected infinitives, clitic placement and clitic doubling, ethical datives, and personal subject pronouns, among others. As such, the volume represents diverse theoretical approaches to addressing a number of key morphological and syntactic issues in the morphosyntactic development of the Romance languages, drawing on modern research methods and current linguistic theory, with a clear preference for parametric syntax. The most significant areas of grammar are well-represented here. The volume will appeal to advanced graduate and postgraduate students in diachronic linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and Romance linguistics, as well as researchers in the fields of historical and typological linguistics, morphosyntactic theory, and the history of the Romance languages.
