Existentials And Locatives In Romance Dialects Of Italy

Author : Delia Bentley,Francesco Maria Ciconte,Silvio Cruschina
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780198745266

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Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy by Delia Bentley,Francesco Maria Ciconte,Silvio Cruschina Pdf

This volume provides the first ever large-scale comparative treatment of there sentences (there copula NP), reporting the results of a survey of Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects of Italy. The volume comprises detailed discussions of focus structure, predication and argument realization, the definiteness effects, and the linking from semantics to syntax in there sentences, advancing novel proposals in each case. The testing of influential hypotheses on existential constructions against first-hand dialect evidence leads the book to argue that existential and locative there sentences differ in focus structure and semantics, although their not being predicate focus constructions and the non-canonicality of the predicate?which is typically referential'is reflected in their shared morphosyntactic features. The hypothesis that the pivot is the predicate of the existential construction is adopted in the analysis, although a distinction is drawn between referential and non-referential pivots, which explains variation in pivot behaviour in morphosyntax. The volume also provides the historical background of Romance there sentences, relying on the findings of the analysis of a substantial corpus of early Italo-Romance vernacular texts.

Author : Delia Bentley,Francesco Maria Ciconte,Silvio Cruschina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Italian language
ISBN : 0191806234

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Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy by Delia Bentley,Francesco Maria Ciconte,Silvio Cruschina Pdf

This publication provides a large-scale comparative treatment of 'there' sentences (there copula NP), reporting the results of a survey of over 100 Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects spoken in Italy. It addresses key issues in linguistic theory and offers a valuable source of data for research on the Romance languages.

Author : Andreas Dufter,Elisabeth Stark
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 977 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110377088

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Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax by Andreas Dufter,Elisabeth Stark Pdf

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.

Author : Laure Sarda,Ludovica Lena
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027252883

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Existential Constructions across Languages by Laure Sarda,Ludovica Lena Pdf

This volume reflects the centrality of the existential construction in current linguistic research and offers studies that both consolidate and challenge established research agendas. It addresses (i) a variety of constructions related to ‘prototypical’ existentials (including the have-possessive construction), and investigates (ii) the relationships between locative, existential, and information structure, (iii) the quantification of the pivot and (iv) the issue of negative existentials. It brings together different and complementary approaches (functional, cognitive, pragmatic, typological, comparative, diachronic, philosophical) based on a wide variety of data sources. The contributions illustrate how the so-called existential construction can take a variety of forms – more or less grammaticalized – and functions – ranging from the expression of literal existence to that of localization and discursive focus – in a wide range of languages. The book will be valuable for linguists, researchers or students, interested in the cross-linguistic manifestations of existential constructions at the interface between syntax, semantics and information structure.

Author : Susann Fischer,Christoph Gabriel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110394832

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Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance by Susann Fischer,Christoph Gabriel Pdf

Different components of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. It has been under debate what the actual range of interaction is and how we can most appropriately represent this in grammatical theory. The volume provides a general overview of various topics in the linguistics of Romance languages by examining them through the interaction of grammatical components and functions as a state-of-the-art report, but at the same time as a manual of Romance languages.

Author : Susann Fischer,Tanja Kupisch,Esther Rinke
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443898003

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Definiteness Effects by Susann Fischer,Tanja Kupisch,Esther Rinke Pdf

This volume explores in detail the empirical and conceptual content of the definiteness effect in grammar. It brings together a variety of relevant observations from a typological, diachronic and a bilingual/second language acquisition perspective, and provides a general overview of different approaches concerned with the syntactic, morphological, semantic, and pragmatic properties of the Definiteness Effect in a series of European and non-European languages.

Author : Sam Wolfe,Martin Maiden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198840176

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Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar by Sam Wolfe,Martin Maiden Pdf

This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the sub-family of the Romance languages that includes French and Occitan: Gallo-Romance. Both standard and non-standard Gallo-Romance data can be of enormous value to studies of morphosyntactic variation and change, yet, as the volume demonstrates, non-standard and comparative Gallo-Romance data have often been lacking in both synchronic and diachronic studies. Following an introduction that sets out the conceptual background, the volume is divided into three parts whose chapters explore a variety of topics in the domains of sentence structure, the verb complex, and word structure. The empirical foundation of the volume is exceptionally rich, drawing on standard and non-standard data from French, Occitan, Francoproven�al, Picard, Wallon, and Norman. This diversity is also reflected in the theoretical and conceptual approaches adopted, which span traditional philology, sociolinguistics, formal morphological and syntactic theory, semantics, and discourse-pragmatics. The volume will thus be an indispensable tool for researchers and students in French and (Gallo-) Romance linguistics as well as for readers interested in grammatical theory, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics.

Author : M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest,Robert D. Van Valin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110393354

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Information Structuring of Spoken Language from a Cross-linguistic Perspective by M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest,Robert D. Van Valin Pdf

Information structure and the organization of oral texts have been rarely studied crosslinguistically. This book contains studies of the grammatical organization of information in languages from different areas (e.g. Amazonian, Finno-Ugric, South-Asian) from a variety of theoretical angles. It will be a valuable resource for researchers investigating the interaction of morphosyntax and discourse in familiar and less familiar languages.

Author : Lena Karssenberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110586435

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Non-prototypical Clefts in French by Lena Karssenberg Pdf

This monograph is the first large-scale corpus analysis of French il y a clefts. While most research on clefts focusses on the English ‘prototypical’ it-cleft and its equivalents across languages, this study examines the lesser-known il y a clefts – of both presentational-eventive and specificational type – and provides an in-depth analysis of their syntactic, semantic and discourse-functional properties. In addition to an extensive literature review and a comparison with Italian c’è clefts and with French c’est clefts, the strength of the study lies in the critical approach it develops to the common definition of clefts. Several commonly used criteria for clefts are applied to the corpus data, revealing that these criteria often lead to ambiguous results. The reasons for this ambiguity are explored, thus leading to a better understanding of what constitutes a cleft. In this sense, the analysis will be of interest to specialists of Romance and non-Romance clefts alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UCBK:C093980507

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Journal of Linguistics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Laura Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198239092

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Sources of London English by Laura Wright Pdf

The macaronic (mixed-language) business texts of London for the period 1275 to 1500 present a rich source of evidence for the medieval dialect of London English. Hitherto they have been ignored because of mistaken ideas about their value, but Laura Wright offers a reassessment of their importance in the development of the English language. The book focuses on terminology surrounding the River Thames to present a study of the medieval dialect of London. The vocabulary survey lists many words which had previously been lost to us, and the illustrative extracts from the texts present a fascinating picture of life in medieval times on the River Thames. The author's analysis covers the orthography, phonology, and morphology of the dialect as revealed in these texts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015062069524

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Publications of the Philological Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jochen Trommer
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199573738

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The Morphology and Phonology of Exponence by Jochen Trommer Pdf

This book addresses the common problems, questions, and solutions of exponence, which concern the mapping of morphosyntactic structure to phonological representations. Leading specialists formulate a coherent research programme for exponence, integrating the central insights of the last decades and providing challenges for the future.

Author : Michael Lumsden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317933717

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Existential Sentences by Michael Lumsden Pdf

What is the relationship between the structure of existential sentences and their meaning? How do hearers interpret existential sentences using pragmatic assumptions? This study attempts to account for the relationship between the structure of existential sentences (ES) and their meaning. The study of ES has received a great deal of attention because the construction has complex syntactic properties, is associated with restrictions of a semantic nature, and provides an interesting area for investigation at a pragmatic level.

Author : Rob Zamparelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135713935

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Layers in the Determiner Phrase by Rob Zamparelli Pdf

The main topic of this work is the interaction between syntactic structure and meanin within the noun phrase, with data drwn primarily from English and Italian.