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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823601803321

Autore

Schwegler Armin <1955->

Titolo

Analyticity and syntheticity : a diachronic perspective with special reference to Romance languages / / Armin Schwegler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1990

ISBN

3-11-087292-7

Edizione

[Reprint 2012]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ; ; 6

Disciplina

440

Soggetti

Romance languages - Syntax

Romance languages - Grammar, Historical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Berkeley, 1986).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-278) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Chapter one. History of the terms "analytic" and "synthetic" -- Chapter two. Word delimitation: in search of a universal -- Chapter three. Fishing out the baby: The usefulness of the terms analyticity/syntheticity in diachronic description -- Chapter four. The verbal core from Latin to French: Part 1: The marking of person/number: from synthetic to analytic? -- Chapter five. The verbal core from Latin to French: Part 2: Periphrastic cantare habeo, habeo cantatum, and je vais chanter -- Chapter six. Synthesis in non-contiguous elements: predicate negation in Romance -- Chapter seven. On drift, cyclicity, reconstruction, and the motives for changes in the analytic/synthetic spectrum -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Author Index -- Backmatter