Past participle agreement : a study on the grammaticalization of formal features / Jorge Vega Vilanova, University of Hamburg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vega Vilanova, Jorge, author.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today ; volume 265.

Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; volume 265

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--Participle.

Romance languages.

Catalan language--Participle.

Catalan language.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Agreement.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 volume.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020.

Summary:

"In this book, the traditional definition of 'grammaticalization' is challenged in the light of current developments in grammar theory. The main innovation of this approach is the focus on the feature composition of lexical items. From this perspective, the loss of past participle agreement in Catalan is analyzed on the basis of newly collected data as a consequence of the grammaticalization of formal features. The emergence of syntactic formal features through grammaticalization is understood as a last-resort repair mechanism for pragmatically costly derivations. Further far-reaching implications of this proposal under discussion are: the interplay between (re-)parametrization, economy, cyclicity and grammaticalization; the characterization of free variation under a modified version of the Interface Hypothesis; and the precedence of syntactic over morphological change. This book is not only of interest to specialists in Romance languages but also to anyone working on diachronic linguistics"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9789027207975

9027207976

OCLC:

1191165596