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Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 17:05:16
From: Martine Paulissen [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Argument structure, alignment and auxiliaries between Latin and Romance: Migliori

 


Title: Argument structure, alignment and auxiliaries between Latin and
Romance 
Subtitle: A diachronic syntactic account 
Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/argument-structure-alignment-and-auxiliaries-between-latin-and-romance 


Author: Laura Migliori

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932090 Pages: 269 Price: U.K. £ 33.00


Abstract:

Although Latin displays many characteristics of nominative/accusative
alignment, it also exhibits a number of properties that are typical of
active/inactive linguistic systems. More specifically, the Latin verbal clause
displays an active/inactive distinction, as it regularly marks, through the
occurrence of dedicated morphological strategies, the presence of non-agentive
as opposed to agentive contexts.

This dissertation explores the syntactic motivations behind this opposition,
addressing the crucial question about the relationship between syntax and
morphology. The claim is made that verbal morphology in Latin is always
syntactically motivated, since it directly reflects the difference between
active and inactive structures. In particular, deponent verbs are shown not to
be a case of syntax-morphology mismatch: these verbs exhibit inactive
morphology because of their non-agentive properties. Moreover, it will be
argued that syntax and semantics are closely related to each other within the
syntactic computation.

>From this perspective, this thesis also provides an account of the development
of a number of analytic constructions in Romance: perfective, possessive and
deontic periphrases. Substantial attention is devoted to the diachronic study
of the Romance auxiliation patterns occurring in these constructions and to
their relationship with alignment and argument structure. The main claim is
that the Romance outcomes of these periphrases are closely related to the
active/inactive opposition characterizing the Latin system and to the
alignment changes that characterized the passage from Latin to Romance.
Therefore, these developments cannot be seen as isolated phenomena, but must
be understood as the various manifestations of a systematic change affecting
the whole linguistic system. Finally, the analysis and investigation of these
diachronic facts confirms that syntactic reanalysis is one of the major forces
at the basis of language change.

This study will be of relevance to anyone interested in diachronic syntax,
historical linguistics, classical philology and Italian dialectology.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Latin (lat)

Language Family(ies): Romance


Written In: English  (eng)

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