The Development Of Romance Clitic Pronouns
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Author | : Dieter Wanner |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 701 |
Release | : 2011-09-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110893061 |
The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Author | : Diego Pescarini |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9780191896545 |
This book explores the development of object clitic pronouns in the Romance languages, drawing on data from Latin, medieval vernaculars, modern Romance languages, and lesser-known dialects. It offers new analyses of well-known phenomena such as interpolation, clitic climbing, enclisis/proclisis alternations, V2 syntax, and stylistic fronting.
Author | : Diego Pescarini |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0198864388 |
This book offers an empirical and theoretical exploration of the development of object clitic pronouns in the Romance languages, drawing on data from Latin, medieval vernaculars, modern Romance languages, and lesser-known dialects. Diego Pescarini examines phonological, morphological, and especially syntactic aspects of Romance object clitics, using the findings to reconstruct their evolution from Latin to Romance and to model clitic placement in modern Romance languages. On the theoretical side, the volume engages with previous accounts of clitics, particularly in generative theory. It challenges the received idea that cliticization resulted from a form of syntactic deficiency; instead, it proposes that clitics resulted from the feature endowment of discourse features, which initially caused freezing of certain pronominal forms and then - through reanalysis - their successive incorporation to verbal hosts. This approach leads to a revision of earlier analyses of well-known phenomena such as interpolation, climbing, and enclisis/proclisis alternations, and to new approaches to issues including V2 syntax, scrambling, and stylistic fronting, among many others.
Author | : Pilar Larranaga |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2012-08-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110238810 |
Traditional grammars have stated that clitics are subject or object pronouns whose distributional features make them different from personal pronouns. This book focuses on the acquisition of personal and demonstrative pronouns as well as clitics with respect to determinative phrases in a variety of languages of the Romance family and several indigenous languages, such as Quechua. A particularly original aspect of the present volume is that it not only addresses syntactic issues, but also semantic and pragmatic questions that have been widely neglected in the literature. It also reports on acquisition data of languages, such as Quechua, which have not attracted the attention of researchers until very recently.
Author | : Sascha Gaglia |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2012-07-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027274584 |
Morphology, and in particular word formation, has always played an important role in Romance linguistics since it was introduced in Diez’s comparative Romance grammar. Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in inflectional morphology, and current research shows a strong interest in paradigmatic analyses. This volume brings together research exploring different areas of morphology from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. On an empirical basis, the theoretical assumption of the ‘Autonomy of Morphology’ is discussed critically. ‘Data-driven’ approaches carefully examine concrete morphological phenomena in Romance languages and dialects. Topics include syncretism and allomorphy in verbs, pronouns, and articles as well as the use of specific derivational suffixes in word formation. Together, the articles in this volume provide insights into issues currently debated in Romance morphology, appealing to scholars of morphology, Romance linguistics, and advanced students alike.
Author | : Cinzia Russi |
Publisher | : De Gruyter Mouton |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Main description: This book provides a comprehensive, primarily descriptive, investigation of important trends in the evolution of Italian object pronouns. It offers the first in-depth characterization of the most frequent verbi procomplementari, whose distinctive property is the complete incorporation of pronouns as grammatically and semantically obligatory elements.
Author | : Giuliano Bocci |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2024-06-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0198889488 |
This volume offers new perspectives on the tension between the rich patterns of language variation that emerge from comparative studies and the quest for simple theoretical primitives. The chapters explore the debate between Cartography and Minimalism: on the one hand, the need for detailed and articulated descriptions of the clausal architecture, and on the other, the endeavor to reduce the theoretical apparatus to fundamental computational mechanisms. The first part of the book begins with a reflection on the goals of modern linguistic theory, and investigates the principles of human language, in an effort to subsume the regularities of particular grammars under a small set of morphosyntactic and semantic primitives. The second part examines the clausal structure - both the CP-layer and the IP-layer - from a comparative perspective, which directly relates to the fundamental questions of universality, linguistic variation, and learnability addressed in the first part of the book. With chapters written by world-leading linguists who analyze a wide range of old and new phenomena, the volume will be a valuable resource for researchers and students interested in theoretical linguistics and language development.
Author | : Gabriela Pană Dindelegan |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2018-04-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1527509494 |
The volume brings together fifteen papers focusing on the morphosyntax of different Romance varieties. It is based on papers presented at the workshop bearing the same title held at the University of Bucharest in November 2015 and is dedicated to Professor Martin Maiden of the University of Oxford in honour of his 60th birthday. The contributions tackle different theoretical issues concerning current linguistic theory (relevant both for comparative and diachronic approaches), including parameters, features and their hierarchical organization, word order changes, the level of verb movement in different varieties, inflected infinitives, clitic placement and clitic doubling, ethical datives, and personal subject pronouns, among others. As such, the volume represents diverse theoretical approaches to addressing a number of key morphological and syntactic issues in the morphosyntactic development of the Romance languages, drawing on modern research methods and current linguistic theory, with a clear preference for parametric syntax. The most significant areas of grammar are well-represented here. The volume will appeal to advanced graduate and postgraduate students in diachronic linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and Romance linguistics, as well as researchers in the fields of historical and typological linguistics, morphosyntactic theory, and the history of the Romance languages.
Author | : Martin Maiden |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2014-06-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317899261 |
A Linguistic History of Italian offers a clear and concise explanation of why modern Italian grammar has become the way it is. It focuses on the effects of historical changes on the modern structure of Italian, revealing patterns and structures which are not always apparent to those who are only familiar with modern Italian. Although the book concentrates on the internal history of the language, the emergence of Italian is considered against the wider background of the history of italian dialects, and other external factors such as cultural and social influences are also examined.
Author | : Henning Andersen |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 589 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027235635 |
The volume contains 37 papers originally presented at the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Lille, France. The papers bring historical data to bear on issues in theoretical linguistics, both descriptive and diachronic or deal with specific questions in the history of individual languages. The theoretical issues range from phonology over morphology and syntax to the lexicon, as well as questions of historical dialectology, language contact, the theory of linguistic change, and problems of comparative reconstruction. The languages discussed are Finno-Ugric and Indo-European, most of the papers dealing with Germanic and Romance languages (especially English and French), but some being devoted to Greek, Celtic, Slavic, and Hittite.