From Latin to romance : morphosyntactic typology and change /

From Latin to romance : morphosyntactic typology and change /

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Author / Creator:Ledgeway, Adam.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Description:xxvii, 434 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 1
Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 1.
Subject:
Romance languages -- Grammar, Historical.
Romance languages -- Morphosyntax.
Romance languages -- Grammar, Historical.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8846566
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ISBN:9780199584376
0199584370
Table of Contents:
  • Series preface
  • List of tables
  • List of abbreviations
  • 1. From Latin to Romance: introduction
  • 1.1. From Latin to Romance: the historical background
  • 1.2. Research questions
  • 1.3. Aims and objectives
  • 1.4. Acknowledgements
  • 2. Syntheticity and analyticity
  • 2.1. Traditional approach
  • 2.2. Problems
  • 2.2.1. Languages or constructions?
  • 2.2.2. Absolute vs relative interpretations
  • 2.2.3. Causal relations between analyticity and morphophonological erosion
  • 2.2.4. Gradual change and competition
  • 2.2.5. Explanatory power
  • 2.2.6. Grammaticalization
  • 3. Configurationality and the rise of constituent structure
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Nominal and verbal groups
  • 3.2.1. Latin
  • 3.2.1.1. Discontinuous structures
  • 3.2.1.2. Conclusion
  • 3.2.2. Romance
  • 3.2.2.1. Adjectival positions
  • 3.2.2.1.1. Restricted adjectival positions
  • 3.2.2.2. Complements and adjuncts
  • 3.3. The sentence
  • 3.3.1. Classical Latin
  • 3.3.1.1. Discontinuous structures
  • 3.3.2. Late Latin and Romance
  • 3.4. Conngurationality: concluding remarks
  • 3.4.1. Degrees of configurationality
  • 4. Conngurationality and the rise of functional structure
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Determiner phrase (DP)
  • 4.2.1. Indefinite article
  • 4.2.2. Definite article
  • 4.2.2.1. Late Latin
  • 4.2.2.2. Romance
  • 4.2.2.2.1. Ipse articles
  • 4.2.2.2.2. Neuter articles
  • 4.2.2.3. Conclusion
  • 4.2.3. Other determiners
  • 4.2.3.1. Romanian
  • 4.2.3.1.1. Demonstrative article
  • 4.2.3.1.2. Possessive article
  • 4.3. Inflectional phrase (IP)
  • 4.3.1. Romance auxiliaries
  • 4.3.1.1. Semantic weakening
  • 4.3.1.2. Morphosyntactic properties
  • 4.3.1.3. Morphophonological specialization
  • 4.3.1.4. Romance perfective auxiliary constructions
  • 4.3.1.5. Romance synthetic future(-in-the-past)
  • 4.3.2. Romance verb positions
  • 4.3.2.1. Summary and conclusions
  • 4.4. Complementizer phrase (CP)
  • 4.4.1. Evidence for Latin CP structure
  • 4.4.1.1. Archaic non-configurational pattern
  • 4.4.2. Evidence for Romance CP structure
  • 4.4.2.1. Topic and Focus Fields
  • 4.4.2.1.1. Internal structure of Topic and Focus fields
  • 4.4.2.1.1.1. Focus field
  • 4.4.2.1.1.2. Topic field
  • 4.4.2.2. Force and Finiteness
  • 4.4.2.3. Other projections
  • 4.5. Conclusion
  • 5. From Latin to Romance: a configurational approach
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.1.1. Early evidence for functional structure
  • 5.1.2. Early evidence for configurationality
  • 5.2. Head parameter: traditional observations
  • 5.2.1. Some Romance counterexamples?
  • 5.3. Changing directions: Latin
  • 5.3.1. Early head-initial structures
  • 5.3.1.1. Complementizers and adpositions
  • 5.3.1.2. Comparatives
  • 5.3.1.3. Relatives
  • 5.3.1.4. Noun phrase
  • 5.3.1.4.1. Adjectives
  • 5.3.1.4.2. Genitives
  • 5.3.1.4.3. Concluding remarks
  • 5.3.1.5. Other categories
  • 5.3.1.6. Summary
  • 5.3.2. Verbal group
  • 5.3.2.1. Auxiliary and dependent infinitive
  • 5.3.3. Conclusion
  • 5.4. Changing directions: from Latin to Romance
  • 5.4.1. Head-last → head-first: roll-up
  • 5.4.2. Rise of head-initiality
  • 5.4.2.1. Position of complement clauses
  • 5.4.2.2. Position of nominal complements
  • 5.4.2.3. Other patterns of harmonization
  • 5.4.2.4. Clausal word order
  • 5.4.3. Pragmatic variation: left-edge fronting
  • 5.4.3.1. Identifying the left-edge: cola and left peripheries
  • 5.4.3.2. Modifier fronting
  • 5.4.3.2.1. Reanalysis: roll-up → edge-fronting
  • 5.4.3.3. Nominal fronting
  • 5.4.3.4. From Latin to Romance
  • 5.5. Conclusion
  • 6. Head-marking and dependent-marking
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Variation in marking
  • 6.3. Romance functional categories → Romance head-marking
  • 6.3.1. Head-marking on D
  • 6.3.2. Head-marking on Infl
  • 6.3.3. Head-marking on C
  • 6.3.4. Extreme head-marking: the case of Ripano
  • 6.3.4.1. Verbal domain
  • 6.3.4.1.1. Subject-verb agreement
  • 6.3.4.1.2. Subject-/object-verb agreement
  • 6.3.4.1.3. Object-verb agreement
  • 6.3.4.2. Contagious head-marking
  • 6.4. Conclusion
  • 7. The rise and fall of alignments
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Classical Latin
  • 7.3. Late Latin and conservative Romance: active/stative syntax
  • 7.3.1. . Verbal group
  • 7.3.1.1. Perfective auxiliary constructions
  • 7.3.1.1.1. Latin background
  • 7.3.1.1.2. Romance
  • 7.3.1.2. Participle agreement
  • 7.3.2. Nominal group
  • 7.3.2.1. Extended and generalized accusative
  • 7.3.2.2. Early Romance binary case systems
  • 7.3.3. Sentence: word order
  • 7.3.4. Other patterns
  • 7.4. Innovative Romance: nominative/accusative syntax
  • 7.4.1. Verbal group
  • 7.4.1.1. Perfective auxiliary constructions
  • 7.4.1.2. Participle agreement
  • 7.4.2. Sentence: word order
  • 7.5. Concluding remarks
  • References
  • Index
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