17.1594, Books: History of Linguistics/Semantics: Mackenzie

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Date: 24-May-2006
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Subject: Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages: Mackenzie 

	
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Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 16:05:10
From: Palgrave Macmillan < palgravemacmillan at palgrave.com >
Subject: Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages: Mackenzie 
 



Title: Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages 
Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403949182 


Author: Ian E. Mackenzie, University of Newcastle

Hardback: ISBN: 1403949182 Pages: 248 Price: U.K. £ 50


Abstract:

The author questions the status quo in Romance linguistics regarding such 
matters as auxiliary selection, partitive cliticization, bare subjects, 
participle agreement, and more. For the past two decades the 
Ergative/Unaccusative syntactic approach has been accepted as the orthodox 
analytical paradigm. He here re-examines both the theoretical imperative 
and the empirical evidence for that approach, drawing on a large amount of 
new and surprising data from Italian, Spanish, French and Catalan, and 
concludes that it is essentially unmotivated. Alternative explanations are 
advanced, based on information structure, semantics and the impact on 
synchrony of diachronic change. The picture that emerges is one of a 
complex but interrelated set of causalities. 



Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): Catalan-Valencian-Balear (cat)
                     French (fra)
                     Italian (ita)
                     Spanish (spa)

Language Family(ies): Romance


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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