Studies on Interrogative and Relative Syntax in French and Romance

Informationen zum Autor Jean-Yves Pollock is Emeritus Professor at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-VallÃ(c)e. He has previously held teaching or research positions at Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis, the University of Rennes 2, Harvard University, and the University of Picardy Jules Verne, and as a CNRS researcher at the Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod in Lyon. He specializes in comparative syntax, and has worked extensively on verb movement, the structure of the IP, impersonal sentences, questions, and relatives. Klappentext This book provides a detailed study of the unusually large array of interrogative and relative grammars mastered by French speakers. Jean-Yves Pollock draws on the theoretical tools of generative grammar and compares the relevant French constructions with their counterparts in English, Italian, and Northern Italian dialects. Zusammenfassung This book provides a detailed study of the unusually large array of interrogative and relative grammars mastered by French speakers. Jean-Yves Pollock draws on the theoretical tools of generative grammar and compares the relevant French constructions with their counterparts in English, Italian, and Northern Italian dialects. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Subject clitics, subject clitic inversion, and complex inversion: Generalizing remnant movement to the Comp area 2: A case study in comparative Romance interrogative syntax: Qu'est-ce que ^(qu)est-ce que? 3: Arguing for remnant movement in Romance 4: Remnant movement and smuggling in some Romance interrogative clauses 5: The syntax of French ^qu'est-ce que clauses and related constructions 6: French ^est-ce que yes/no questions and related constructions 7: Free relatives and related constructions in French 8: French que, quoi, ce que, and clefts

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Yves Pollock, Jean-Yves (Emeritus Professor Pollock, Pollock Jean-Yves
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.12.2024
• EAN: 9780198910329
• ISBN: 978-0-19-891032-9
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; French, 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