Novedad =?iso-8859-1?Q?bibliogr=E1fica?=: J. Franco, A. Landa and J. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDn?=, eds. 1999. Grammatical Analyses in Basque and Romance Linguistics. Papers in honor of Mario Saltarelli. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

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                  Novedad bibliográfica:
    Jon Franco, Alazne Landa and Juan Martín, eds. 1999.
Grammatical Analyses in Basque and Romance Linguistics.
Papers in honor of Mario Saltarelli. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins. [Edited by Universidad de Deusto, Universidad
del País Vasco, University of Toledo, Ohio. Current Issues
in Linguistic Theory, 187. Hb viii, 306 pp. ISBN:
90-272-3693].
                De: Alazne Landa Arevalillo
            mailto:y119236402 at abonados.cplus.es
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    This volume contains fifteen articles on current
theoretical issues in Basque and Romance Linguistics.
Even though Basque and Romance languages are typologically
different and have different genetic origins, one thousand
years of coexistence have shown certain parallelisms in
their respective grammars. It is Mario Saltarelli that
first offered a formal linguistic account of phonological
and syntactic phenomena that occur in these two language
groups. Thus, this compilation of articles in both Basque
and Romance linguistics not only pays tribute to
Saltarelli's work by acknowledging his formalization of
this relational insight, but also comprises state of the
art research on languages with strong geographical and
historical kinship.

    Fifteen reviewed articles written by sixteen top
scholars in the field provide fresh analyses of long
standing challenging phenomena in Romance and Basque
linguistics such as geminates, the evolution of Basque
plosives, clitic doubling, clitic clustering,
directionality of cliticization, the role of agreement,
focus, the interaction of voice and aspect, unaccusativity,
semantic interpretation and syntactic structure of
Determiner Phrases, obviation, control, and anaphoric and
pronominal binding.

    This variety of topics however is unified by limiting
the contributions to the four major formal areas of
linguistics, and to one single framework, Generative
Grammar, although in some of its many incarnations such as
Minimalism, Optimality Theory, and Relational Gramar. All
this, along with the number of languages covered by the
authors (Aragonese, Basque, Catalan, French, Galician,
Gascon, Italian and many of its dialects --Ligurian,
Piedmontese, Tuscan...-- Classical and Late Latin, Occitan,
Brazilian and European Portuguese, Romanian, Old and Modern
Spanish among others), makes the book of great value to any
linguist working in Romance or Basque linguistics.

    Contributions by: Luigi Burzio, Héctor Campos, Heles
Contreras, Violeta Demonte, José Ignacio Hualde, Marta
Luján, Juan Martín, Michael Mazzola, Errapel
Mejías-Bikandi, Jon Ortiz de Urbina, Claudia Parodi &
Carlos Quicoli, Eduardo Raposo, Margarita Suñer, Dieter
Wanner, Karen Zagona.

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           mailto:customer.services at benjamins.nl

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