Linguistic Perspectives on Romance Languages

Linguistic Perspectives on Romance Languages
Author: William J. Ashby
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1993-07-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027277087

This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the 1991 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, held in Santa Barbara. In addition, the volume contains revised versions of three of the keynote papers. A welcome aspect of this collection, reflective of the conference itself, is the recurrent incorporation of historical and social factors into explanations of linguistic form.

Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages

Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages
Author: Kristin Bech
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2014-05-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027270465

The contributions of this volume offer new perspectives on the relation between syntax and information structure in the history of Germanic and Romance languages, focusing on English, German, Norwegian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. In addition to discussing changes in individual languages along the syntax–information structure axis, the volume also makes a point of comparing and contrasting different languages with respect to the interplay between syntax and information structure. Since the creation of increasingly sophisticated annotated corpora of historical texts is on the agenda in many research environments, methods and schemes for information structure annotation and analysis of historical texts from a theoretical and applied perspective are discussed.

The Development of Romance Clitic Pronouns

The Development of Romance Clitic Pronouns
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.

Clitics

Clitics
Author: Joel A. Nevis
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1994-10-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902727665X

This bibliography provides an alphabetical listing of over 1500 articles, books, and dissertations that treat in some way the topic of clitics and related matters, e.g. affixes, words, word order, movement, sandhi, etc. The beginning point for the bibliographic entries is 1892, taking Jacob Wackernagel's classic work as the point of departure, and the entries cover the subsequent 100-year period. Each entury is accompanied by a series of descriptors which give an indication of the content of the item. Nearly one-third of the book is a detailed analytic index, based on the descriptors, which can aid in topical searches for relevant material. Prefatory matter includes an essay “What is a Clitic?” by Arnold M. Zwicky, a brief consideration of Wackernagel's scholarly career by Brian D. Joseph, and information on the format and use of the book itself.

The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 1, Structures

The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 1, Structures
Author: Martin Maiden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 889
Release: 2011
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0521800722

This Cambridge history is the definitive guide to the comparative history of the Romance languages. Volume I is organized around the two key recurrent themes of persistence (structural inheritance and continuity from Latin) and innovation (structural change and loss in Romance).

Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax

Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax
Author: Andreas Dufter
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 978
Release: 2017-09-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 311037708X

This volume offers theoretically informed surveys of topics that have figured prominently in morphosyntactic and syntactic research into Romance languages and dialects. We define syntax as being the linguistic component that assembles linguistic units, such as roots or functional morphemes, into grammatical sentences, and morphosyntax as being an umbrella term for all morphological relations between these linguistic units, which either trigger morphological marking (e.g. explicit case morphemes) or are related to ordering issues (e.g. subjects precede finite verbs whenever there is number agreement between them). All 24 chapters adopt a comparative perspective on these two fields of research, highlighting cross-linguistic grammatical similarities and differences within the Romance language family. In addition, many chapters address issues related to variation observable within individual Romance languages, and grammatical change from Latin to Romance.

Romance Languages and Modern Linguistic Theory

Romance Languages and Modern Linguistic Theory
Author: Paul Hirschbühler
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 426
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027277443

The contributions in this volume are selected and revised papers from the 20th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, held in Ottawa in 1990. They reflect the state of Romance linguistics carried out within a broadly defined generative framework.

Portuguese Syntax

Portuguese Syntax
Author: João Costa
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2000
Genre: Portuguese language
ISBN: 0195125762

This volume is a collection of previously unpublished articles focusing on the following aspects of Portuguese syntax: clause structure, clitic placement, word order variation, pronominal system, verb movement, quantification, and distribution of particles. The articles are written within the principles and parameters framework and contrast Portuguese with other Romance languages.