1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910493203703321

Titolo

Formal approaches to DPs in Old Romanian / / Edited by Virginia Hill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2015]

ISBN

90-04-28771-X

90-04-29255-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics ; ; v. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

HillVirginia

Disciplina

459/.5

Soggetti

Romanian language - Syntax

Discourse analysis

Historical linguistics

Pragmatics

Romanian language

History

Electronic books.

Romania History To 1711

Romania

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Virginia Hill -- The Parameter of Definiteness in Romanian: Diachronic and Synchronic Evidence / Alexandru Nicolae -- Polydefinite DPs in Old Romanian / Daniela Isac -- Classified Proper Names in Old Romanian: Person and Definiteness / Alexandra Cornilescu and Alexandru Nicolae -- Agreeing and Non-agreeing Genitives in Old Romanian and the History of Romanian Genitive Constructions / Ion Giurgea -- Differential Object Marking in the First Original Romanian Texts / Alexandru Mardale -- Two DP Configurations for Supine-Based Nouns / Adina Dragomirescu -- Object Pronouns in the Evolution of Romanian: A Biolinguistic Perspective / Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Stanca Somesfalean -- DPs in Adjectival Small Clauses in Romanian: A Diachronic Perspective / Monica Alexandrina Irimia -- Restrictive and Appositive Relatives / Anca Sevcenco -- Index.



Sommario/riassunto

Formal approaches to DPs in Old Romanian offers the first collection of papers on this topic published in English. All the analyses adopt the conceptual tools of generative grammar to explain the syntactic peculiarities of Old Romanian nouns, synchronically and diachronically. Old Romanian noun syntax displays non-trivial peculiarities both in the internal structure of the DP (e.g., inflected possessive marker, polydefinite agreement, optional definite article on proper nouns) and in the way the DP is used in clause derivation (e.g., variable location of object pronouns, reanalysis of the relative item from phrasal to head). The analyses emphasize the relevance of the data for a finer-grained typology of Romance/Balkan languages as well as for the theory of grammar.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798709203321

Autore

Barraclough Eleanor Rosamund

Titolo

Beyond the Northlands [[electronic resource] ] : Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : OUP Oxford, 2016

ISBN

0-19-870129-2

0-19-100447-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Disciplina

909/.04395

Soggetti

Scandinavia History To 1397

Europe History 476-1492

Europe

Scandinavia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Beyond the Northlands: Viking voyages and the old norse sagas; Copyright; Dedication; Acnowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Basic Pronunciation Guide to Tricky Letters; · Vikings ·; Chapter 1: Inroads from the Sea; Dragons over Northumbria; Danelaw; Eggs and dregs; Slaughter-wolves; Northland of old; Chapter



2: Fire and Ice; Terra nova; Saga stories; Mouths and manuscripts; Trials by water and fire; Blurred lines; · North ·; Chapter 3: In the Lands of the North; Out of space, out of time; Wonders of the north; Deep magic; Darkness will give way; 'Much knowing'

Snow queensChapter 4: North of all Northmen; As far north as whale hunters go; King of the north; Pagans and politics; Sailing by; Chapter 5: Where the Wild Things Are; Fighting with monsters; A hairy situation; Giantland geography; Glittering plains; Butter and bacon; · West ·; Chapter 6: Westward Ho!; The last homely house; Frozen in time; Tempers and tourism; Outside over there; Winter of discontent; Bred on frost; Chapter 7: New World; Snorri's story; Sailing the saga seas; L'Anse aux Meadows; A taste of paradise; Trouble with the natives; Through the looking glass; Paradise lost

Off the mapChapter 8: The Way the World Ends; A frosty reception; Ice age; Silent death; Not with a bang; Dark and dangerous land; Helluland reborn; · East ·; Chapter 9: Eastern Promise; Steppe by steppe; Another history; Small islands; Raiders and traders; Cold wars; Kings of the east; A clash of kings; Tangled threads; Chapter 10: Set in Stone; Immortal memory; Far travellers; A river runs through it; Lost in translation; Telling tales; Chapter 11: Far-Travelling Beasts; Beauty and the bestiary; Here be dragons; Marvels and monsters; · South ·; Chapter 12: Journey to the Centre of the Earth

From the frozen edgeWar and peace; Battle-happy kings; Due south; Rough guide to Rome; Chapter 13: Sailing to Byzantium; What is past; God's holy fire; No country for old men; Lords and ladies; A drowsy emperor; Monuments of magnificence; Hammered gold; Unageing monuments; Sensual music; Chapter 14: World's End; Filling in the gaps; Monstrous regiments; To the ends of the earth; This side of paradise; Epilogue; Endnotes; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14

Sagas in TranslationPicture Acknowledgements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A trip to the furthest edgelands of the Viking world via the drama of the Old Norse sagas - from the Arctic Circle to Constantinople, north America to Kievan Rus.