This book provides a detailed account of verb movement across more than twenty standard and non-standard Romance varieties. Norma Schifano uses extensive empirical data to demonstrate that, contrary to traditional assumptions, it is possible to identify at least four distinct macro-typologies of verb movement in the Romance languages.
This book provides a detailed account of verb movement across more than twenty standard and non-standard Romance varieties. Norma Schifano uses extensive empirical data to demonstrate that, contrary to traditional assumptions, it is possible to identify at least four distinct macro-typologies of verb movement in the Romance languages.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Norma Schifano has recently completed her PhD at Clare College, University of Cambridge, and is currently working as a Research Associate on the Leverhulme-funded research project 'Fading voices in Southern Italy: investigating language contact in Magna Graecia'. Her research interests include historical and synchronic Romance comparative morphosyntax, with a special focus on language contact; Mood, Tense, and Aspect marking; the functional make-up of the sentential core; verb movement, adverbial syntax, and cartography. She is the editor and translator of Renato Oniga's Latin: A Linguistic Introduction (OUP 2014).
Inhaltsangabe
1.: Introduction 2: Romance varieties of the Italian peninsula 3: Other Romance varieties 4: Macrovariation 5: Microvariation 6: Conclusions