Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax
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- ISBN 9783110376937
- Weight: 1776g
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 25 Sep 2017
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Andreas Dufter, University of Munich LMU, Germany; Elisabeth Stark, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
