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Argument structure in flux : the Naples-Capri papers / edited by Elly Van Gelderen, Michela Cennamo, J{acute}ohanna Bar℗ðdal.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in Language Companion Series
- Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 131
- Studies in Language Companion Series ; 131
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Ergative constructions.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Case.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
- Generative grammar.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (586 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this paper we claim that the emergence of the existential pro-form in early Italo-Romance is motivated by the overt marking of definiteness on the pivot. The available data from a relatively large corpus of early Italo-Romance texts dating from C13th to C16th suggest that the overt marking of definiteness, which differentiates Romance from its ancestor Latin, favours the establishment of an existential pattern where the encoding of non-canonical pivots (definite ones) is licensed only if a locative element occurs in the structure; this can be a locative phrase, a locative relative pronoun
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Argument structure and encoding strategies
- pt. 2. Argument structure and verb classes
- pt. 3. Unexpressed arguments.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789027272287
- 902727228X
- OCLC:
- 850923043
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