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Grammatical categories : variation in romance languages /

"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 'l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Manzini, Maria Rita
Otros Autores: Savoia, Leonardo Maria, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Colección:Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 128.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: grammatical categories and the biolinguistic perspective
  • The structure and interpretation of (Romance) complementizers
  • Variation in Romance k-complementizer systems
  • Sentential negation: adverbs
  • Sentential negation: clitics
  • The middle-passive voice: evidence from Albanian
  • The auxiliary: have/be alternations in the perfect
  • The noun (phrase): agreement, case and definiteness in an Albanian variety
  • (Definite) denotation and case in Romance: history and variation.