Definiteness in Balkan Romance

This book explores the micro-variation in the realization of definiteness across languages belonging to the Balkan Romance family: Romanian, Aromanian, Istro-Romanian and Megleno-Romanian. Daniela Isac offers a unified analysis of the different patterns observed, based on a post-syntactic spell-out rule.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Framework and theoretical assumptions


• 3: Empirical focus and proposal


• 4: Implementation of the proposal


• 5: Conclusions


• 6: Appendix


• References


• Index

About the author

Daniela Isac is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Concordia University, where she has been teaching since receiving her PhD in 2000 from the University of Bucharest. Her interests include syntactic theory, diachronic syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and the foundations of linguistics as cognitive science. She is the co-author, with Charles Reiss, of I-Language. An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science (OUP 2008; 2nd edition 2013) and author of The Morphosyntax of Imperatives (OUP 2015).

Summary

This book explores the micro-variation in the realization of definiteness across languages belonging to the Balkan Romance family: Romanian, Aromanian, Istro-Romanian and Megleno-Romanian. Daniela Isac offers a unified analysis of the different patterns observed, based on a post-syntactic spell-out rule.

Product details

• Authors: Daniela Isac, Daniela (Associate Professor of Linguistics Isac, Isac Daniela
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2024
• EAN: 9780198865704
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886570-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Romanian, Historical and comparative linguistics