Syntactic Variation and Verb Second : A German dialect in Northern Italy / Federica Cognola, University of Trento.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cognola, Federica.

Series:

Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today ; 201.

Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today ; 201

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German language--Dialects--Italy--Fersina River Valley.

German language.

German language--Grammar--Syntax.

German language--Verb.

German language--Grammar.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

German language--Dialects.

Italy--Fersina River Valley.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]

Summary:

This monograph investigates the syntax of the finite verb in Mòcheno, a minority language spoken in a German speech island of Northern Italy. Basing her study on detailed new data collected during extensive fieldwork, and focusing on finite verb movement; on multiple access to the left periphery; on pro licensing mechanism and on the distribution of OV/VO word orders, the author refutes the traditional view that the syntactic variation found in Mòcheno is due to the presence of two competing grammars as a consequence of contact with Romance varieties and accounts for the peculiarities of Mòcheno syntax within a theory couched in the framework of Generative Grammar. This book contributes to our understanding of the verb-second phenomenon and sheds new light on the asymmetries between Old Romance and Germanic verb-second languages. A useful tool for all linguists working on both theoretical and comparative syntax and to anyone interested in language variation, dialectology and typology.

Contents:

1 Acknowledgments p. ix

2 List of abbreviations p. xi

3 1. Introduction p. 1

4 2. Mòcheno and the V2 phenomenon p. 19

5 3. The syntax of subject pronouns p. 77

6 4. Satisfaction of EPP and realization of subjects p. 113

7 5. Mòcheno as a partial pro -drop language p. 139

8 6. Multiple access to CP and asymmetric pro -drop p. 167

9 7. Conclusions p. 213

10 References p. 221

11 Appendix p. 235

12 Index p. 323.

Notes:

"This monograph is a fully revised version of my PhD dissertation defended in March 2010 at the University of Padua."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027255846

9027255849

OCLC:

814373930