Germanic and Romance Inversion in French
Author : Cecile Anne de Bakker
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 1997
Category : French language
ISBN :
Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance
Author : Sam Wolfe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 21,91 MB
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192578057
Book Description
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 played a central role in linguistic research, but many significant questions remain about the relationship between them. Following an introduction that sets out the methodological, empirical, and theoretical background to the book, the volume is divided into three parts that 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 contributors adopt a diverse range of approaches, making use of the latest digitized corpora and presenting a mixture of well-known and under-studied 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. The volume will be an indispensable resource for researchers and students in the fields of Germanic and Romance linguistics, historical and comparative linguistics, and morphosyntax.
Syntactic Change in French
Author : Sam Wolfe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 17,95 MB
Release : 2021-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192609920
Book Description
This book provides the most comprehensive and detailed formal account to date of the evolution of French syntax. It makes use of the latest formal syntactic tools and combines careful textual analysis with a detailed synthesis of the research literature to provide a novel analysis of the major syntactic developments in the history of French. The empirical scope of the volume is exceptionally broad, and includes discussion of syntactic variation and change in Latin, Old, Middle, Renaissance, and Classical French, and standard and non-standard varieties of Modern French. Following an introduction to the general trends in grammatical change from Latin to French, Sam Wolfe explores a wide range of phenomena including the left periphery, subject positions and null subjects, verb movement, object placement, negation, and the makeup of the nominal expression. The book concludes with a comparative analysis of how French has come to develop the unique typological profile it has within Romance today. The volume will thus be an indispensable tool for researchers and students in French and comparative Romance linguistics, as well as for readers interested in grammatical theory and historical linguistics more broadly.
Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar
Author : Sam Wolfe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192576534
Book Description
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, Francoprovençal, 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.
Romance Linguistics
Author : Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 36,11 MB
Release : 2003-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027275270
Book Description
This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 32nd Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, dealing with linguistic theory as applied to the Romance languages, and on empirical studies on the acquisition of Romance, with studies on Romanian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romansch and Latin. The theoretical section contains contributions concentrating on specific properties of Romance at the syntax/semantics interface, on morphosyntactic issues, on subject licensing and case, and on phonology. The acquisition section includes contributions on first, bilingual and second language acquisition of functional structure, word structure, quantification and stress.
Verb Second in Medieval Romance
Author : Sam Wolfe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0198804679
Book Description
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. 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.
Formal Approaches to Romance Morphosyntax
Author : Marc-Olivier Hinzelin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110719282
Book Description
Recent years have witnessed a (re)surfacing of interest on the interaction of morphology and syntax. For many grammatical phenomena, it is not easy to draw a dividing line between syntactic and morphological structure. This has led to the assumption that syntax is the module responsible not only for deriving syntactically complex phrases but also for deriving morphologically complex items, both in inflection and word formation. There are however also good reasons to think that syntax is not involved in all morphological processes and that there are consistent areas of morphology that are independent from syntactic processes. This book presents a collection of papers where phenomena from Romance languages and varieties are analysed under contrasting views on how morphology and syntax interact. All the contributions follow the aim to investigate what the analysed phenomena tell us about their structural make‐up and the grammatical processes involved.
Parametric Variation in Germanic and Romance
Author : Elisabet Engdahl
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,93 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Germanic languages
ISBN :
Book Description
Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax
Author : C. Jan-Wouter Zwart
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2002-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027296928
Book Description
This volume presents a collection of articles reporting on new research carried out within the theoretical framework of generative grammar on the comparative syntax of the Germanic languages. Divided in four main sections, the book focuses on issues of subordination and complementation (with emphasis on German/Dutch and Danish), displacement phenomena discussed in relation with richness of morphology (with special attention to English, German/Dutch, and Norwegian, as well as presenting more general discussion of the issue), language variation and change (studying historical English syntax and Frisian contact dialects), and the syntax-semantics interface viewed from a Germanic perspective (addressing ellipsis, reflexivity, and the behavior of quantifiers).
The BantuRomance Connection
Author : Cécile de Cat
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 11,27 MB
Release : 2008-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027290679
Book Description
This landmark volume is the first work specifically designed to explore the extent to which striking surface morpho-syntactic similarities between Bantu and Romance languages actually represent similar syntactic structures. In particular, it explores the timely and much debated issues of verbal morphology and agreement, the structure of DPs, and word order/information structure, with the goal of providing a better understanding of the structure of the different languages investigated, and the implications this holds for syntactic theory more generally. All of the papers draw on data from both Bantu and Romance languages, providing a framework for much-needed further comparative research on the nature of linguistic structure, its diversity and constraints, and the implications this has for learnability/acquisition. The volume also provides an important precedent for incorporating insights from Bantu linguistic structure into mainstream of syntax research.
