The verbal complex in romance [[electronic resource] ] : a case study in grammatical interfaces / / Paola Monachesi

• Autore: Monachesi Paola
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 440.0456
• Soggetto topico: Romance languages - Verb
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-280) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; General Preface; Dedication; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Outline; 2 The Framework; 2.1 Basic assumptions; 2.2 The principles; 2.3 Phrases and constituent structure; 2.4 Lexical generalizations; 2.5 The organization of the grammar and the implications for the interfaces: A comparison with other theories; 3 Morphology and its Interfaces: The Case of Romance Clitics; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 A constrained-based view of morphology; 3.2.1 The word-syntax approach; 3.2.2 Realizational approaches; 3.3 Romance clitics as a test case for grammatical interfaces ; 3.3.1 General properties of Romance clitics3.3.2 The affixal status of Romance clitics; 3.3.3 Phonology; 3.3.4 Conclusions; 3.4 A lexical analysis of Romance clitics; 3.4.1 Clitic doubling; 3.4.2 Subject clitics; 3.5 Morphophonological properties of Romance clitics; 3.5.1 Syntactic and morphological approaches to clitic distribution; 3.5.2 The clitic cluster; 3.5.3 The morphophonological features; 3.5.4 The spelling out of Romance pronominal clitics; 3.5.5 An alternative realizational approach; 3.6 Germanic clitics; 3.7 Slavic clitics; 3.8 A brief review ; 3.9 Comparing frameworks: Distributed Morphology3.10 Comparing frameworks: Optimality Theory; 3.11 Conclusions; 4 Syntax and its Interfaces: The Case of Romance Auxiliary Verbs; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Basic properties of Romanian tense auxiliaries; 4.3 The syntactic structure of tense auxiliaries; 4.3.1 The syntactic structure of French auxiliary verbs; 4.3.2 The syntactic structure of Italian auxiliary verbs; 4.3.3 The syntactic structure of Romanian tense auxiliaries; 4.4 Mesoclisis in European Portuguese; 4.5 Romanian tense auxiliaries and the distribution of pronominal clitics ; 4.5.1 The position of pronominal clitics in the Romanian and Balkan clitic cluster4.5.2 The ordering of Romanian clitics; 4.5.3 The analysis of Romanian clitic climbing; 4.6 Romanian tense auxiliaries and monosyllabic intensifiers; 4.7 Romanian tense auxiliaries and negation; 4.8 Romanian future auxiliaries; 4.9 The perfect auxiliary fi; 4.10 Romanian auxiliary-like constructions; 4.10.1 Raising verbs; 4.10.2 The modal verb a putea; 4.11 A brief review; 4.12 Comparison with other accounts; 4.13 The role of argument structure: A comparison; 4.14 What is the role of syntactic structure? ; 4.15 Conclusions5 Phonology and its Interfaces: The Case of Italian Restructuring Verbs; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The data; 5.3 The syntactic structure of Italian restructuring verbs; 5.4 Restructuring verbs and clitic climbing; 5.5 The Prosodic Representation of Restructuring Verbs; 5.5.1 Evidence against Prosodic Word status; 5.5.2 Evidence in favour of Phonological Phrase status; 5.6 The syntax-phonology interface; 5.6.1 Ghini (1993); 5.6.2 Selkirk (1986, 1995) and Truckenbrodt (1999); 5.6.3 Nespor and Vogel (1986); 5.7 A templatic view on restructuring verbs: Cinque (2000); 5.8 Conclusions ; References
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the interface between syntax and phonology, morphology, and argument structure. The author presents case studies, such as clitics and auxiliary and modal verbs in Romance, and grounds theoretical analysis in constant exemplification. This is a valuable contribution to the study of grammatical interfaces and to Romance verbal typology and comparative linguistics. - ;This book explores the interface between syntax and the other components of the grammar, in particular phonology, morphology, and argument structure. The author proceeds through a consideration of case studies, su
• Titolo autorizzato: The verbal complex in romance
• ISBN: 1-280-75792-2; 0-19-153449-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465629903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford linguistics.; Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; ; 9.