26.3742, Books: A Comparative Grammar of Borgomanerese: Tortora

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Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:54:58
From: Carolyn Napolitano [Carolyn.Napolitano at oup.com]
Subject: A Comparative Grammar of Borgomanerese: Tortora

 


Title: A Comparative Grammar of Borgomanerese 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-comparative-grammar-of-borgomanerese-9780199945641 


Author: Christina M. Tortora

Paperback: ISBN:  9780199945641 Pages: 432 Price: U.S. $ 49.95


Abstract:

This book presents and analyzes various features of the morphosyntax of Borgomanerese, a Gallo-Italic dialect spoken in the town of Borgomanero, in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy. The study is highly comparative, drawing on the literature on numerous other Italian dialects and Romance languages (as well as English), to inform our understanding of the Borgomanerese phenomena. Christina Tortora takes the many unusual and understudied (and often novel) facts of Borgomanerese grammar as compelling grounds for revisiting and reformulating current analyses of syntactic phenomena in these other languages. The phenomena treated include the syntax and semantics of the weak locative in presentational sentences; the syntax of object clitics and argument prepositions; the syntax of subjects and subject clitics; the syntax of interrogatives; clausal architecture; and the relationship between orthography and theoretical analysis. The principal value of this book lies both in the rich descri
 ption of the morphosyntactic phenomena of Borgomanerese, many of which have not been previously reported in the literature, and in the consequent novel analyses developed, which contribute insights for other languages and dialects, and advance our understanding of syntax and syntactic theory in general. 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)

Language Family(ies): Romance


Written In: English  (eng)

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