From Latin to Romance - Morphosyntactic Typology and Change

Zusatztext A model of how modern diachronic syntax can re-think the traditional descriptive distinctions and can incorporate the latest benefits of generative grammar theorizing! without throwing into relief the theory at the expense of the data. Informationen zum Autor Adam Ledgeway is Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. His resarch interests include Italian dialectology, the comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages, Latin, syntactic theory, and linguistic change. His recent publications include The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages Vol 1: Structures, Vol 2: Contexts (CUP 2011, 2013, co-edited with Martin Maiden and J. C. Smith) and Dialects and Diachrony: Grammatical Change in the Dialects of Italy (OUP 2014, co-edited with Paola Benincà and Nigel Vincent. He is the co-editor, along with Martin Maiden, of OUP's forthcoming Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages. Klappentext This book examines grammatical changes during the transition from Latin to the Romance languages and the factors proposed to explain them. It challenges orthodoxy, presents new perspectives on language change, structure, and variation. Zusammenfassung This book examines grammatical changes during the transition from Latin to the Romance languages and the factors proposed to explain them. It challenges orthodoxy, presents new perspectives on language change, structure, and variation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 From Latin to Romance: Introduction; 2 Syntheticity and analyticity; 3 Configurationality and the rise of constituent structure; 4 Configurationality and the rise of functional structure; 5 From Latin to Romance: A configurational approach; 6 Head-marking and dependent-marking; 7 The rise and fall of alignments; References; Index

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• Authors: Adam Ledgeway, Adam (Professor of Italian and Romance L Ledgeway, Adam (Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics Ledgeway, Ledgeway Adam
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2015
• EAN: 9780198736691
• ISBN: 978-0-19-873669-1
• No. of pages: 466
• Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Diachronic a
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Latin, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Romance, Italic & Rhaeto-Romanic languages, Romance, Italic and Rhaeto-Romanic languages, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Historical and comparative linguistics