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Verb Second in Medieval Romance: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics, cartea 34

Autor Sam Wolfe
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 dec 2018
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198804673
ISBN-10: 0198804679
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 164 x 238 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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The book is very well written, and the reasoning is very clear... Wolfe succeeds in providing a convincing analysis for verb-second order in medieval Romance, but also for deviations from this order.

Notă biografică

Sam Wolfe is Associate Professor of French Linguistics at the University of Oxford. Prior to this he held teaching and research positions at the Universities of Cambridge, Manchester, and Oxford as well as a Visiting Professorship at the University of Padua. He has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge and has published on a range of topics within French and comparative Romance linguistics, historical syntax, and formal syntax.