M. Rita Manzini, Leonardo Maria Savoia

Grammatical Categories

Variation in Romance Languages

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 743g
• ISBN-13: 9780521765190
• ISBN-10: 0521765196
• Artikelnr.: 32731896

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.