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From Latin to romance : morphosyntactic typology and change / Adam Ledgeway.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ledgeway, Adam.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 1.
- Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romance languages--Grammar, Historical.
- Romance languages.
- Romance languages--Morphosyntax.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphosyntax.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 434 pages) : illustrations.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This book examines the grammatical changes that took place in the transition from Latin to the Romance languages. The emerging language underwent changes in three fundamental areas involving the noun phrase, verb phrase, and the sentence. The impact of the changes can be seen in the reduction of the Latin case system; the appearance of auxiliary verb structures to mark such categories as tense, mood, and voice; and a shift towards greater rigidification of word order. The book considers how far these changes are interrelated and compares their various manifestations and pace of change across the different standard and non-standard varieties of Romance. It describes the historical background to the emergence of the Romance varieties and their Latin ancestry, considering in detail the richly documented diachronic variation exhibited by the Romance family. The book reviews the accounts and explanations that have been proposed within competing theoretical frameworks, and considers how far traditional ideas should be reinterpreted in light of recent theoretical developments. This account shows that the transition from Latin to Romance is not only of great intrinsic interest, but both provides a means of challenging linguistic orthodoxies and presents opportunities to shape new perspectives on language change, structure, and variation.
- Contents:
- From Latin to Romance: Introduction
- Syntheticity and Analyticity
- Configurationality and The Rise of Constituent Structure
- Configurationality and The Rise of Functional Structure
- From Latin to Romance: A Configuration Approach
- Head-marking and Dependent-marking
- The Rise and Fall of Alignments.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Ledgeway, Adam. From Latin to romance.
- ISBN:
- 9780191613203
- 0191613207
- 0191741469
- 9780191741463
- OCLC:
- 801405460
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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