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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959073003321

Titolo

Comparative syntax of Balkan languages / / editors, Maria Luisa Rivero and Angela Ralli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-772143-5

1-280-53053-7

0-19-535161-4

1-4294-0170-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 pages)

Collana

Oxford studies in comparative syntax

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

409/.496

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Language

Balkan Peninsula Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Is Balkan Comparative Syntax Possible?; 3 Head-to-Head Merge in Balkan Subjunctives and Locality; 4 Control and Raising in and out of Subjunctive Complements; 5 Subjunctives in Bulgarian and Modern Greek; 6 Direct Object Clitic Doubling in Albanian and Greek; 7 Adjectival Determiners in Albanian and Greek; 8 Last Resort and V Movement in Balkan Languages; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of seven papers studies important aspects of the syntax of Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek and Romanian from a comparative perspective based on current linguistic frameworks, including the Minimalist Program.