The Entrenchment of the "unus alterum" Pattern - Four Essays on Latin and Old Romance Reciprocal Constructions

In this book, the author presents that although various Old Romance grammars can be traced back to the common Latin ancestor, the functional domain of reciprocity shows divergent paths of development. In this regard, each of the languages have worked up their unique solutions, with grammatical and semantic mechanisms underlying their diversity.

List of contents

In-depth constructionist inquiry - Emergence of Romance reciprocal - The Latin unus alterum sequence

About the author

Miköaj Nkollo is a specialist in Romance diachronic linguistics. His papers were released in prestigious linguistic periodicals in the US, Netherlands and Germany. He was awarded numerous scholarships. The current book summarizes 3-year investigation supported by the Polish National Centre of Science, funding initiative OPUS4.

Product details

• Authors: Miko¿aj Nkollo, Mikolaj Nkollo
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9783631676592
• ISBN: 978-3-631-67659-2
• No. of pages: 117
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 13 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 260 g
• Illustrations: 6 Abb.
• Series: Lodz Studies in Language; Lang, Peter Frankfurt; Lódz Studies in Language; Lodz Studies in Language
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics