Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)

The author questions the status quo in Romance linguistics regarding such matters as auxiliary selection, partitive cliticization, bare subjects, participle agreement, and more. For the past two decades the Ergative/Unaccusative syntactic approach has been accepted as the orthodox analytical paradigm. He here re-examines both the theoretical imperative and the empirical evidence for that approach, drawing on a large amount of new and surprising data from Italian, Spanish, French and Catalan, and concludes that it is essentially unmotivated. Alternative explanations are advanced, based on information structure, semantics and the impact on synchrony of diachronic change. The picture that emerges is one of a complex but interrelated set of causalities.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
Release date:	March 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	I MacKenzie
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	230
Edition:	2006 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-4918-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
LSN:	1-4039-4918-2
Barcode:	9781403949189

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