Grammatical Categories - Variation in Romance Languages

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

M. Rita Manzini is Full Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Florence.Leonardo M. Savoia is Full Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Florence.

Summary

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.

Additional text

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

Product details

• Authors: M Rita Manzini, M. Rita Manzini, M. Rita (Universita Degli Studi DI Firenz Manzini, Manzini M. Rita, Leonardo M Savoia, Leonardo M. Savoia, Savoia Leonardo M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781316606568
• ISBN: 978-1-316-60656-8
• No. of pages: 363
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; French, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Language: reference and general, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology