Continuity and variation in Germanic and Romance / edited by Sam Wolfe and Christine Meklenborg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wolfe, Sam, editor.

Meklenborg, Christine, editor.

Series:

Oxford linguistics

[Oxford linguistics]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germanic languages--Morphosyntax.

Germanic languages.

Romance languages--Morphosyntax.

Romance languages.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphosyntax.

Physical Description:

xv, 606 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This volume offers a range of synchronic and diachronic case studies in comparative Germanic and Romance morphosyntax. These two language families, spoken by over a billion people today, have played a central role in linguistic research, but many significant questions remain about the relationship between them. Following an introduction that sets out the methodological, empirical, and theoretical background to the book, the volume is divided into three parts that deal with the morphosyntax of subjects and the inflectional layer; inversion, discourse pragmatics, and the left periphery; and continuity and variation beyond the clause. The contributors adopt a diverse range of approaches, making use of the latest digitized corpora and presenting a mixture of well-known and under-studied data from standard and non-standard Germanic and Romance languages. Many of the chapters challenge received wisdom about the relationship between these two important language families. The volume will be an indispensable resource for researchers and students in the fields of Germanic and Romance linguistics, historical and comparative linguistics, and morphosyntax.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Germanic and Romance: Data, method, and theory / Christine Meklenborg

pt. I THE SUBJECT SYSTEM AND THE INFLECTIONAL LAYER

2. Register-specific subject omission in English and French and the syntax of coordination / Elisabeth Stark

3. The position of subjects in Germanic and Romance questions / Anna Cardinaletti

4. Expressing perception in parallel ways: Sentential Small Clauses in German and Romance / Jan Casalicchio

5. Pro-drop in interrogatives across older Germanic and Romance languages / George Walkden

6. Reflexive constructions in German, Spanish, and French as a product of cyclic interaction / Jonathan E. MacDonald

7. Locative inversion in Germanic and Romance: A conspiracy theory / Fabienne Martin

pt. II INVERSION, DISCOURSE PRAGMATICS, AND THE LEFT PERIPHERY

8. V2 and topicalization in Germanic and Romance / Roland Hinterholzl

9. Topics in French and Norwegian / Terje Lohndal

10. Issues in the left periphery of Old French and Old English: Topic types and the V2 constraint / Christine Meklenborg

11. Evaluating the contact hypothesis for Old French word order / Sam Wolfe

12. Second positions: A synchronic analysis and some diachronic consequences / Ian Roberts

13. Deconstructing Stylistic Fronting in Old Norwegian and Old Spanish / Signe Laake

14. The grammaticalization of sic: On narrative particles in Romance and Scandinavian / Verner Egerland

15. Against complementizers / Emanuela Sanfelici

16. On complementizers and relative pronouns in Germanic vs. Romance / Richard S. Kayne

pt. III CONTINUITY AND VARIATION BEYOND THE CLAUSE

17. Adjectival concord in Romance and Germanic / Giuliana Giusti

18. Functional and lexical prepositions across Germanic and Romance / Silvia Rossi

19. New prepositions in the house / Sam Wolfe

20. `Have' in English and Romance / John Charles Smith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198841167

9780198841166

OCLC:

1198019102

Publisher Number:

99988347385