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1 online resource (623 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford linguistics |
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Oxford linguistics.
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| Contents |
Germanic and Romance: data, method, and theory / Sam Wolfe, Christine Meklenborg -- Register-specific subject omission in English and French and the syntax of coordination / Liliane Haegeman, Elisabeth Stark -- The position of subjects in Germanic and Romance questions / Anna Cardinaletti -- Expressing perception in parallel ways: sentential small clauses in German and Romance / Jan Casalicchio -- Pro-drop in interrogatives across older Germanic and Romance languages / Federica Cognola, George Walkden -- Reflexive constructions in German, Spanish, and French as a product of cyclic interaction / Matthew L. Maddox, Jonathan E. MacDonald -- Locative inversion in Germanic and Romance: a conspiracy theory / Benjamin L. Sluckin, Silvio Cruschina, Fabienne Martin -- V2 and topicalization in Germanic and Roman / Roland Hinterhölzl -- Topics in French and Norwegian / Christine Meklenborg, Hans Petter Helland, Terje Lohndal -- Issues in the left periphery of Old French and Old English: topic types and the V2 constraint / Ans van Kemenade, Christine Meklenborg -- Evaluating the contact hypothesis for Old French word order / Sam Wolfe -- Second positions: a synchronic analysis and some diachronic consequences / Ian Roberts -- Deconstructing stylistic fronting in Old Norwegian and Old Spanish / Kristin Foøsker Hagemann, Signe Laake -- The grammaticalization of SIC: on narrative particles in Romance and Scandinavian / Verner Egerland -- Against complementizers / Cecilia Poletto, Emanuela Sanfelici -- On complementizers and relative pronouns in Germanic vs. Romance / Richard S. Kayne -- Adjectival concord in Romance and Germanic / Giuliana Giusti -- Functional and lexical prepositions across Germanic and Romance / Jacopo Garzonio, Silvia Rossi -- New prepositions in the house / Kersti Börjars, Nigel Vincent, Sam Wolfe -- 'Have' in English and Romance / John Charles Smith |
| Summary |
"This volume offers a range of synchronic and diachronic case studies in comparative Germanic and Romance morphosyntax. These two language families, spoken by over a billion people today, have been of central importance throughout the development linguistics, yet many significant questions about the relationship between the two families remain. Following an introduction that sets out the methodological, empirical, and theoretical background to the book, the volume is divided into three parts which deal with the morphosyntax of subjects and the inflectional layer inversion, discourse pragmatics, and the left periphery, and continuity and variation beyond the clause. The approaches used by the authors of individual chapters are diverse, making use of the latest digitized corpora and presenting a mixture of well-known and understudied data from standard and non-standard Germanic and Romance languages. Many of the chapters challenge received wisdom about the relationship between these two important language families. This volume will be an indispensable tool to researchers and students in Germanic and Romance linguistics, historical linguistics, grammatical theory, and language relationships"--Publisher's description |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on December 3, 2021) |
| Subject |
Germanic languages -- Variation
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Romance languages -- Variation
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Germanic languages -- Morphosyntax
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Romance languages -- Morphosyntax
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Germanic languages -- Variation
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Romance languages -- Variation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wolfe, Sam (Professor of French linguistics), editor.
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Salvesen, Christine Meklenborg, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780192578051 |
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0192578057 |
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9780191876677 |
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0191876674 |
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