Grammatical Categories: Variation in Romance Languages

ISBN-13: 9781316606568 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 363 str.

M. Rita Manzini; Leonardo M. Savoia

Opis

A study of grammatical categories, unifying morphology and syntax, and drawing on an unusually large amount of original dialect data.

Recenzje

'Provides insightful solutions … a must-have on Romance syntax.' Dominique Sportiche, University of California, Los Angeles and ENS, Paris

Spis treści

Introduction: the biolinguistic perspective; 1. The structure and interpretation of (Romance) complementizers; 2. Variation in Romance k-complementizer systems; 3. Sentential negation: adverbs; 4. Sentential negation: clitics; 5. The middle-passive voice: evidence from Albanian; 6. The auxiliary: have/be alternations in the perfect; 7. The noun (phrase): agreement, case and definiteness in an Albanian variety; 8. (Definite) denotation and case in Romance: history and variation.