35.1645, Books: Definiteness in Balkan Romance: Isac (2024)

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Date: 26-Apr-2024
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
Subject: Definiteness in Balkan Romance: Isac (2024)


Title: Definiteness in Balkan Romance
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author: Daniela Isac
Hardback: ISBN: 9780198865704 Pages: 288 Price: U.S. $ 115.00
Abstract:

This book is a study of the micro-variation in the realization of
definiteness across languages belonging to the Balkan Romance family:
Romanian, Aromanian, Istro-Romanian, and Megleno-Romanian. The
definite article is a suffix in all of these languages, but nominal
constituents show considerable variation with respect to the overt
realization of the definite article: in some instances, the definite
article is spelled out only once, in other situations it is spelled
out multiple times, and in still other cases it can be phonologically
null. Daniela Isac offers a unified analysis of these options based on
a post-syntactic spell-out rule that specifies the conditions under
which the definite article can be pronounced on various heads within
the nominal constituent. Micro-variation in the patterns displayed by
specific languages in this family is accounted for exclusively by
lexicon-related differences (the feature specification of lexical and
functional items may vary across languages) and by differences related
to externalization (syntactic relations such as Agree may have various
morpho-phonological overt expressions across languages). Crucially,
the computational system is assumed to be invariant, a result that is
consistent with the generative understanding of the knowledge and
acquisition of language.

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

Subject Language(s): Romanian (ron)

Language Family(ies): Romance

Written In: English (eng)



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