30.3269, Books: Word Order and Parameter Change in Romanian: Nicolae

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Subject: 30.3269, Books: Word Order and Parameter Change in Romanian: Nicolae

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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 11:03:29
From:  Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: Word Order and Parameter Change in Romanian: Nicolae

 


Title: Word Order and Parameter Change in Romanian 
Subtitle: A Comparative Romance Perspective 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/word-order-and-parameter-change-in-romanian-9780198807360?q=9780198807360&lang=en&cc=us 


Author: Alexandru Nicolae

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198807360 Pages: 288 Price: U.S. $ 90.00


Abstract:

The book provides a comprehensive description and in-depth analysis of the
major word order changes that took place in the clausal and the nominal
domains in the transition from old to modern Romanian. The data are set in a
comparative Romance perspective, with attention also paid to the impact of the
Balkan Sprachbund and the influence of Old Church Slavonic. Alexandru
Nicolae's analysis is based on a qualitative and quantitative examination of a
large number of phenomena in a representative corpus of old Romanian texts.
Some of these phenomena, such as scrambling, interpolation, discontinuous
constituents, and variation in the position and linearization of DP-internal
adjectival modifiers, are found across Romance, while others, such as the low
position for pronominal cliticization, are relatively rare. Still others are
specific to old and modern Romanian, such as the proclitic and enclitic
realization of the same pronominal clitic, the low definite article, and the
adjectival article construction. 

>From an empirical perspective, the volume fills a gap in the Romance
linguistics literature, as several of the phenomena it explores have been
largely neglected to date. More broadly it offers a valuable contribution to
research into word order typology and change, the nature and content of
syntactic parameters, and the theory of grammaticalization and syntactic
change.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Romanian (ron)

Language Family(ies): Romance


Written In: English  (eng)

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