Grammatical Categories
Variation in Romance Languages
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
- Authors:
- M. Rita Manzini, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
- Leonardo M. Savoia, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
- Date Published: April 2020
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316606568
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Grammatical categories (e.g. complementizer, negation, auxiliary, case) are some of the most important building blocks of syntax and morphology. Categorization therefore poses fundamental questions about grammatical structures and about the lexicon from which they are built. Adopting a 'lexicalist' stance, the authors argue that lexical items are not epiphenomena, but really represent the mapping of sound to meaning (and vice versa) that classical conceptions imply. Their rule-governed combination creates words, phrases and sentences - structured by the 'categories' that are the object of the present inquiry. They argue that the distinction between functional and non-functional categories, between content words and inflections, is not as deeply rooted in grammar as is often thought. In their argumentation they lay the emphasis on empirical evidence, drawn mainly from dialectal variation in the Romance languages, as well as from Albanian.
Read more- Includes original data on Italian dialects and on Albanian, collected through fieldwork
- Comprises four major case studies in Romance, with Albanian used for comparison
- Provides a comprehensive review of the main Romance data and trends
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'Grammatical Categories is a sample of Manzini and Savoia's unique blend of innovative theorizing and painstaking empirical research. Highly recommendable.' Knut Tarald Taraldsen, Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics, University of Tromsø
See more reviews'Provides insightful solutions … a must-have on Romance syntax.' Dominique Sportiche, University of California, Los Angeles and ENS, Paris
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- Date Published: April 2020
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316606568
- length: 363 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- contains: 8 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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