Manual of grammatical interfaces in Romance / / edited by Susann Fischer and Christoph Gabriel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910467382803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 3-11-039483-9; 3-11-031186-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (702 p.)
• Collana: Manuals of Romance Linguistics ; ; Volume 10
• Disciplina: 440/.045
• Soggetti: Romance languages - Grammar, Historical; Romance languages - Grammaticalization; Generative grammar; Government-binding theory (Linguistics); Minimalist theory (Linguistics); 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 at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Manuals of Romance Linguistics -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- Grammatical interfaces in Romance languages: An introduction -- 1. Surface sound and underlying structure: The phonetics-phonology interface -- 2. Segmental phenomena and their interactions: Evidence for prosodic organization and the architecture of grammar -- 3. Prosodic phonology and its interfaces -- 4. Phonology and morphology in Optimality Theory -- 5. Inflectional verb morphology -- 6. Meaning of words and meaning of sentences -- 7. Morphology and semantics: Aspect and modality -- 8. (In)definiteness, specificity, and differential object marking -- 9. Agreement restrictions and agreement oddities -- 10. Auxiliary selection -- 11. Subjects, null subjects, and expletives -- 12. Object clitics -- 13. Nominalizations -- 14. Information structure, prosody, and word order -- 15 VP and TP ellipsis: Sentential polarity and information structure -- 16. Existential constructions -- 17. Acquiring multilingual phonologies (2L1, L2 and ; L3): Are the difficulties in the interfaces? -- 18. Interfaces with syntax in language acquisition -- 19. The role of the interfaces in syntactic change -- 20. Interfacing interfaces: Quechua and Spanish in the Andes -- 21. Grammaticalization and pragmaticalization -- 22. Changes at the syntax-discourse interface -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Different components of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. It has been under debate what the actual range of interaction is and how we can most appropriately represent this in grammatical theory. The volume provides a general overview of various topics in the linguistics of Romance languages by examining them through the interaction of grammatical components and functions as a state-of-the-art report, but at the same time as a manual of Romance languages.