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The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology presents a
state-of-the-art, detailed and exhaustive overview of all aspects
of Spanish morphology, paying equal attention to the empirical
complexities of the morphological system and the theoretical issues
that they raise. As such, this handbook is relevant both for those
interested in the facts of Spanish morphology and those interested
in general morphology that want to explore how the Spanish facts
illuminate our understanding of human language and current theories
of morphology. This volume is also unique in its extent and
coverage. Written by an international team of leading experts in
the field, it contains 42 chapters divided into four sections,
covering all synchronic and diachronic aspects of Spanish
morphology, including inflection; derivation; compounding and other
processes of word formation; the interaction of morphology with
other modules of grammar and the role of morphology in language
acquisition, psycholinguistics and language teaching.
This book makes a novel contribution to our understanding of
Romance SE constructions by combining both diachronic and
synchronic theoretical perspectives along with a range of empirical
data from different languages and dialects. The collection, divided
into four sections, proposes that SE constructions may be divided
into one class that is the result of grammaticalization of a
reflexive pronoun up the syntactic tree, from Voice and above, and
another class that has resulted from the reanalysis of reflexive
and anticausative morphemes as an argument expletive or verbal
morpheme generated in positions from Voice and below. The
contributions, while varied in both empirical content and
theoretical approach, all serve to highlight different aspects of
the overarching idea that SE constructions have evolved from these
two distinct grammaticalization paths. The book appeals to
researchers and academics in the field and closes with a unified
approach to various SE constructions that makes important use of
its status as a verbal morpheme. In addition to aligning a novel
string of empirical contributions under a new theoretical umbrella,
a clear research direction emerges from this volume based on the
morphosyntactic nature of SE itself: Is it a clitic, an agreement
morpheme, or a verbal morpheme?
This book makes a novel contribution to our understanding of
Romance SE constructions by combining both diachronic and
synchronic theoretical perspectives along with a range of empirical
data from different languages and dialects. The collection, divided
into four sections, proposes that SE constructions may be divided
into one class that is the result of grammaticalization of a
reflexive pronoun up the syntactic tree, from Voice and above, and
another class that has resulted from the reanalysis of reflexive
and anticausative morphemes as an argument expletive or verbal
morpheme generated in positions from Voice and below. The
contributions, while varied in both empirical content and
theoretical approach, all serve to highlight different aspects of
the overarching idea that SE constructions have evolved from these
two distinct grammaticalization paths. The book appeals to
researchers and academics in the field and closes with a unified
approach to various SE constructions that makes important use of
its status as a verbal morpheme. In addition to aligning a novel
string of empirical contributions under a new theoretical umbrella,
a clear research direction emerges from this volume based on the
morphosyntactic nature of SE itself: Is it a clitic, an agreement
morpheme, or a verbal morpheme?
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