36.1272, Books: Studies on Interrogative and Relative Syntax in French and Romance: Pollock (2025)

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Date: 15-Apr-2025
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
Subject: Studies on Interrogative and Relative Syntax in French and Romance: Pollock (2025)


Title: Studies on Interrogative and Relative Syntax in French and
Romance
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Oxford University Press
           http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL:
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Author(s): Jean-Yves Pollock

Abstract:

This book provides a detailed study of the unusually large array of
interrogative and relative grammars mastered by French speakers. Each
of its eight chapters is devoted to one aspect of their interrogative
competence and to the closely related syntax of their relative,
exclamative, and cleft constructions. Jean-Yves Pollock draws on the
rich traditional and generative literature devoted to this type of
construction and makes use of all the theoretical tools of modern
generative grammar, including the displacement known as remnant
movement and the highly articulated high and low left peripheries of
the clause developed within the cartographic approach. French
speakers' competence in these complex areas often seems to set them
apart from speakers of other Romance languages: this book hence adopts
a comparative approach to isolate those features of French that are
responsible for the unique properties exhibited by the constructions
under investigation. A greater understanding of French questions,
clefts, free relatives, and exclamatives is achieved through
comparison with the equivalent constructions in English and Romance -
more specifically Italian and Northern Italian dialects - and those
French constructions equally shed light on the syntax of English,
Italian, and Northern Italian dialects.

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax




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