Grammatical analyses in Basque and Romance linguistics [[electronic resource] ] : papers in honor of Mario Saltarelli / / edited by Jon Franco, Alazne Landa, Juan Martín

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456805203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : Benjamins, c1999
• ISBN: 1-283-17466-9; 9786613174666; 90-272-8378-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Collana: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 187
• Altri autori (Persone): FrancoJon; LandaAlazne; MartínJuan <1961->; SaltarelliMario
• Disciplina: 440/.045
• Soggetti: Romance languages - Grammar; Basque language - Grammar; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Anaphora and soft constraints / Luigi Burzio -- Passive constructions and partitive case checking in Spanish / Héctor Campos -- Deconstructing weak cross-over / Heles Contreras -- A minimal account of Spanish adjective position and interpretation / Violeta Demonte -- Pre-Basque plosives / José Ignacio Hualde -- A unified approach to control and obviation / Marta Luján -- Theta binding and the semantics of NPs in Romance / Juan Martín -- Tuscan germinates and trochaic feet / Michael Mazzola -- Unaccusative and antipassive constructions in Basque and Spanish / Errapel Mejías-Bikandi -- Focus phrases, force phrases and left heads in Basque / Jon Ortiz de Urbina -- On agreement and case / Claudia Parodi and Carlos Quicoli -- Directionality of cliticization in European Portuguese : left or right / Eduardo Raposo -- Clitic doubling of strong pronouns in Spanish / Margarita Suñer -- Clitic clusters in Romance / Dieter Wanner -- Voice ; and aspect / Karen Zagona.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume contains fifteen articles on current theoretical issues in Basque and Romance linguistics. Even though Basque and Romance languages are typologically different and have different genetic origins, one thousand years of coexistence have shown certain parallelisms in their respective grammars. It is Mario Saltarelli that first offered a formal linguistic account of phonological and syntactic phenomena that occur in these two language groups. Thus, this compilation of articles in both Basque and Romance linguistics not only pays tribute to Saltarelli's work by acknowledging his formali