31.1471, Books: Grammatical Categories: Manzini, Savoia

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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 22:08:14
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Grammatical Categories: Manzini, Savoia

 


Title: Grammatical Categories 
Subtitle: Variation in Romance Languages 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 128  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/grammatical-categories-variation-romance-languages?format=PB 


Author: M. Rita Manzini
Author: Leonardo M. Savoia

Paperback: ISBN:  9781316606568 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 33.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316606568 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316606568 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 30.33


Abstract:

Grammatical categories (e.g. complementizer, negation, auxiliary, case) are
some of the most important building blocks of syntax and morphology.
Categorization therefore poses fundamental questions about grammatical
structures and about the lexicon from which they are built. Adopting a
'lexicalist' stance, the authors argue that lexical items are not
epiphenomena, but really represent the mapping of sound to meaning (and vice
versa) that classical conceptions imply. Their rule-governed combination
creates words, phrases and sentences – structured by the 'categories' that are
the object of the present inquiry. They argue that the distinction between
functional and non-functional categories, between content words and
inflections, is not as deeply rooted in grammar as is often thought. In their
argumentation they lay the emphasis on empirical evidence, drawn mainly from
dialectal variation in the Romance languages, as well as from Albanian.


Introduction: the biolinguistic perspective; 1. The structure and
interpretation of (Romance) complementizers; 2. Variation in Romance
k-complementizer systems; 3. Sentential negation: adverbs; 4. Sentential
negation: clitics; 5. The middle-passive voice: evidence from Albanian; 6. The
auxiliary: have/be alternations in the perfect; 7. The noun (phrase):
agreement, case and definiteness in an Albanian variety; 8. (Definite)
denotation and case in Romance: history and variation.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Language Family(ies): Romance


Written In: English  (eng)

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