Three Issues of Romance Morphology

ISBN-13: 9783631624432 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 102 str.

Maria Goldbach

Opis

This book analyses three phenomena of Romance Morphology. The first is event nominalization in modern European Spanish and Portuguese and the role of blocking concerning the suffix rivalry of {-miento/-mento} and {-cion/-cao}. The second are Romance conjugation classes in modern European Portuguese in comparison to Classical Latin and other Romance Languages such as Asturian, Galician, Standard Italian, Sicilian and modern European Spanish. The third phenomena are syncretisms in Italo- and Gallo-Romance, their treatment in morphological models and their relation to syntax. The analyses are made on the basis of detailed corpus studies and evaluated against the background of current morphological models."

Spis treści

Contents: Derivational morphology - Inflectional morphology - Romance languages - Event nominalization - Conjugation classes in Portuguese and other Romance languages - Syncretisms in Italo- and Gallo-Romance - Relevance for morphology and syntax - Heuristics and research questions.

O autorze

Maria Goldbach was research and teaching assistant at the University of Hamburg for the linguistics of the Romance languages. In 2007 she started as research assistant at the University of Oxford, 2011 she moved to the University of Wuerzburg as Professor of Romance linguistics. Since April 2012 she is Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Hamburg. Her main research interests are the syntax and morphology of Romance Languages.