Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 1999
| Author | : Yves Dhulst |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2001-12-04 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9789027284396 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9027284393 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Download or read book Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 1999 written by Yves Dhulst and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-12-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a selection of articles presented at 'Going Romance' 1999. The articles focus on current syntactic and semantic issues in various Romance languages, including Catalan, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and a number of Northern Italian dialects. A large number of articles focus on negation, which was the theme of the workshop at Going Romance 1999, but other topics investigated include Wh- in situ, free relatives, exclamatives, lexical decomposition and thematic structure, unaccusative inversion, and temporal existential constructions. Most articles are comparative in nature, relating the different syntactic and semantic properties of both Romance and non-Romance languages to principles of Universal Grammar. The theoretical frameworks adopted in the various articles are diverse, ranging from the Principles and Parameters framework to HPSG.
