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Verb Second in Medieval Romance
Af: Sam Wolfe
Engelsk Hardback
Verb Second in Medieval Romance
Af: Sam Wolfe
Engelsk Hardback

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This volume provides the first book-length study of the controversial topic of Verb Second and related properties in a range of Medieval Romance varieties. It presents an examination and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data from Old French, Occitan, Sicilian, Venetian, Spanish, and Sardinian, in order to assess whether these were indeed Verb Second languages. Sam Wolfe argues that V-to-C movement is a point of continuity across all the medieval varieties - unlike in the modern Romance languages - but that there are rich patterns of synchronic and diachronic variation in the medieval period that have not previously been observed and investigated. These include differences in the syntax-pragmatics mapping, the locus of verb movement, the behaviour of clitic pronouns, the syntax of subject positions, matrix/embedded asymmetries, and the null argument properties of the languages in question. The book outlines a detailed formal cartographic analysis of both the attested synchronic patterns and the diachronic evolution of Romance clausal structure. The findings have widespread implications for the understanding of both the key typological property of Verb Second and the development of Latin into the modern Romance languages.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
208
ISBN-13:
9780198804673
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0198804679
Udg. Dato:
6 dec 2018
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
164mm
Højde:
238mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
6 dec 2018
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