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Date: 14 Sep 2007
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:New Book

Title: Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas
Subtitle: Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 88

Publication Year: 2007
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS% 
2088


Editor: Paolo Ramat
Editor: Elisa Roma

Hardback: ISBN: 9027230986  Pages: 390 Price: U.S. $ 162.00


Abstract:

This volume is a collection of 12 papers which originated from a  
research
project on ‘Europe and the Mediterranean from a linguistic point of  
view:
history and prospects’. The papers deal with specific morphosyntactic
aspects of language structure and evolution. The comparative  
perspective is
adopted both from a synchronic (typological) and a diachronic  
(historical)
angle, focusing in particular on possible contact phenomena. Therefore,
methodological key words of this book are and. The issues addressed  
cover
such diverse aspects of language structure and change as verb  
morphology,
relative clause formation, Noun Phrase determination, demonstrative
systems, possessive markers in Noun Phrases, conjunctive, disjunctive  
and
adversative constructions, non-canonical object marking, impersonal
constructions, reduplication and early translations of the Gospels.  
These
topics are discussed particularly in relation to Romance, Germanic,  
Celtic
and Semitic languages, both modern and ancient. This book will interest
researchers in typological, historical, functional and general  
linguistics.

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