32.631, Books: Past Participle Agreement: Vega Vilanova

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Subject: 32.631, Books: Past Participle Agreement: Vega Vilanova

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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 19:59:08
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Past Participle Agreement: Vega Vilanova

 


Title: Past Participle Agreement 
Subtitle: A study on the grammaticalization of formal features 
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 265  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.265 


Author: Jorge Vega Vilanova

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260468 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260468 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260468 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207975 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207975 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207975 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

In this book, the traditional definition of ‘grammaticalization’ is challenged
in the light of current developments in grammar theory. The main innovation of
this approach is the focus on the feature composition of lexical items. From
this perspective, the loss of past participle agreement in Catalan is analyzed
on the basis of newly collected data as a consequence of the
grammaticalization of formal features. The emergence of syntactic formal
features through grammaticalization is understood as a last-resort repair
mechanism for pragmatically costly derivations. Further far-reaching
implications of this proposal under discussion are: the interplay between
(re-)parametrization, economy, cyclicity, and grammaticalization; the
characterization of free variation under a modified version of the Interface
Hypothesis; and the precedence of syntactic over morphological change. This
book is not only of interest to specialists in Romance languages but also to
anyone working on diachronic linguistics.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): Catalan-Valencian-Balear (cat)


Written In: English  (eng)

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