30.455, Books: Indefinites between Latin and Romance: Gianollo

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Subject: 30.455, Books: Indefinites between Latin and Romance: Gianollo

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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 17:46:40
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: Indefinites between Latin and Romance: Gianollo

 


Title: Indefinites between Latin and Romance 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/indefinites-between-latin-and-romance-9780198812661 


Author: Chiara Gianollo

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198812661 Pages: 352 Price: U.S. $ 90.00


Abstract:

This book investigates the syntactic and semantic development of a selection
of indefinite pronouns and determiners (such as aliquis 'some', nullus 'no',
and nemo 'no one') between Latin and the Romance languages. Although these
elements have undergone significant diachronic change since the Classical
Latin period, the modern Romance languages show a remarkable degree of
similarity in the way their systems of indefinites have evolved and are
structured today. In this volume, Chiara Gianollo draws on data from Classical
and Late Latin texts, and from electronic corpora of the early stages of
various Romance languages, to propose a new account of these similarities. The
focus is primarily on Late Latin: at this stage, the grammar of indefinites
already shows a number of changes, which are homogeneously transmitted to the
daughter languages, leading to parallelism in the various emerging Romance
systems. The volume demonstrates the value of using methods and models from
synchronic theoretical linguistics for investigating diachronic phenomena, as
well as the importance of diachronic research in understanding the nature of
crosslinguistic variation and language change.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Language Family(ies): Romance


Written In: English  (eng)

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