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Author Nicolae, Alexandru, 1986- author.

Title Word order and parameter change in Romanian : a comparative romance perspective / Alexandru Nicolae
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (283 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 36
Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 36.
Contents Word order and parameter change in Romanian -- Inversion as a residual old Romance V2 grammar -- Discontiguous linearizations in the sentential core -- Word order in the nominal phrase -- Demonstrative specialization and the emergence of the determiner cel -- Diachronic features of Romanian in a broader comparative setting
Summary The book provides a comprehensive description and in-depth analysis of the major word order changes that took place in the clausal and the nominal domains in the transition from old to modern Romanian. The data are set in a comparative Romance perspective, with attention also paid to the impact of the Balkan Sprachbund and the influence of Old Church Slavonic. Alexandru Nicolae's analysis is based on a qualitative and quantitative examination of a large number of phenomena in a representative corpus of old Romanian texts. Some of these phenomena, such as scrambling, interpolation, discontinuous constituents, and variation in the position and linearization of DP-internal adjectival modifiers, are found across Romance, while others, such as the low position for pronominal cliticization, are relatively rare. Still others are specific to old and modern Romanian, such as the proclitic and enclitic realization of the same pronominal clitic, the low definite article, and the adjectival article construction. From an empirical perspective, the volume fills a gap in the Romance linguistics literature, as several of the phenomena it explores have been largely neglected to date. More broadly it offers a valuable contribution to research into word order typology and change, the nature and content of syntactic parameters, and the theory of grammaticalization and syntactic change
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 4, 2019)
Subject Romanian language -- Word order
Romanian language -- To 1500 -- Word order
Linguistic change.
Linguistic change
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191844980
0191844985
9780192534279
0192534270