32.2008, Books: Unraveling the complexity of SE: Armstrong, MacDonald (eds.)

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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2021 21:36:15
From: Laura de Kreij [laura.dekreij at springernature.com]
Subject: Unraveling the complexity of SE: Armstrong, MacDonald (eds.)

 


Title: Unraveling the complexity of SE 
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Springer
	   http://www.springer.com
	

Book URL: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-57004-0 


Editor: Grant Armstrong
Editor: Jonathan E. MacDonald

Electronic: ISBN:  9783030570040 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 85.59
Hardback: ISBN:  9783030570033 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 108.99


Abstract:

This book makes a novel contribution to our understanding of Romance SE
constructions by combining both diachronic and synchronic theoretical
perspectives along with a range of empirical data from different languages and
dialects.

The collection, divided into four sections, proposes that SE constructions may
be divided into one class that is the result of grammaticalization of a
reflexive pronoun up the syntactic tree, from Voice and above, and another
class that has resulted from the reanalysis of reflexive and anticausative
morphemes as an argument expletive or verbal morpheme generated in positions
from Voice and below. The contributions, while varied in both empirical
content and theoretical approach, all serve to highlight different aspects of
the overarching idea that SE constructions have evolved from these two
distinct grammaticalization paths.

The book appeals to researchers and academics in the field and closes with a
unified approach to various SE constructions that makes important use of its
status as a verbal morpheme. In addition to aligning a novel string of
empirical contributions under a new theoretical umbrella, a clear research
direction emerges from this volume based on the morphosyntactic nature of SE
itself: Is it a clitic, an agreement morpheme, or a verbal morpheme?
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Language Family(ies): Romance


Written In: English  (eng)

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