Grammatical Categories - Variation in Romance Languages

Informationen zum Autor M. Rita Manzini is Full Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Florence. Klappentext A study of grammatical categories, unifying morphology and syntax, and drawing on an unusually large amount of original dialect data. Zusammenfassung Grammatical categories (e.g. complementizer! negation! auxiliary! case) are some of the most important building blocks of syntax and morphology. This is a study of grammatical categories! drawing on an unusually large amount of original dialect data. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: M. Rita Manzini, M. Rita (Universit... Degli Studi DI Fire Manzini, M. Rita (Universita Degli Studi DI Firenz Manzini, M. Rita Savoia Manzini, Maria Rita Manzini, Rita Savoia Manzini, MANZINI RITA SAVOIA LEONARDO MAR, Leonardo M. Savoia, Leonardo Maria Savoia
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521765190
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76519-0
• No. of pages: 364
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics