30.732, Books: Verb Second in Medieval Romance: Wolfe

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Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:29:02
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: Verb Second in Medieval Romance: Wolfe

 


Title: Verb Second in Medieval Romance 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/verb-second-in-medieval-romance-9780198804673 


Author: Sam Wolfe

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198804673 Pages: 208 Price: U.S. $ 85.00


Abstract:

This volume provides the first book-length study of the controversial topic of
Verb Second and related properties in a range of Medieval Romance varieties.
It presents an examination and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative
data from Old French, Occitan, Sicilian, Venetian, Spanish, and Sardinian, in
order to assess whether these were indeed Verb Second languages. Sam Wolfe
argues that V-to-C movement is a point of continuity across all the medieval
varieties - unlike in the modern Romance languages - but that there are rich
patterns of synchronic and diachronic variation in the medieval period that
have not previously been observed and investigated. These include differences
in the syntax-pragmatics mapping, the locus of verb movement, the behaviour of
clitic pronouns, the syntax of subject positions, matrix/embedded asymmetries,
and the null argument properties of the languages in question. The book
outlines a detailed formal cartographic analysis of both the attested
synchronic patterns and the diachronic evolution of Romance clausal structure.
The findings have widespread implications for the understanding of both the
key typological property of Verb Second and the development of Latin into the
modern Romance languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Romance


Written In: English  (eng)

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