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Auxiliary selection in italo-romance a nested-agree approach Irene Amato
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Amato, Irene., Author.
- Series:
- Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series
- Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series vol. 281
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italian language--Auxiliary verbs.
- Italian language.
- Romance languages--Auxiliary verbs.
- Romance languages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam/Philadelphia John Benjamins [2023]
- Summary:
- "This book proposes a new solution to the long-standing puzzle of auxiliary selection in Romance languages, in particular Italian. The following questions are addressed: why the perfect auxiliary appears in the two forms be and have within a single language, what drives this distribution, and how cross-linguistic data can be accounted for. The solution to these issues consists of an Agreebased analysis that accounts for auxiliary selection in root clauses and restructuring in Standard Italian and in Italo-Romance varieties, which is also compatible with participle agreement. By answering these questions, the book also touches upon more theoretical and foundational problems, such as the distribution of labor between syntax, morphology and the lexicon, and the conditions on the operation Agree (in particular, multiple probing, locality, and minimality). This work contributes to the discussion in the fields of formal morpho-syntax, theoretical linguistics, and Romance linguistics"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prelim pages
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of symbols and abbreviations
- Chapter 1. The problem of auxiliary selection
- Chapter 2. Nested Agree
- Chapter 3. Auxiliary selection
- Chapter 4. Auxiliary selection in restructuring
- Chapter 5. Auxiliary selection in other Italo-Romance varieties
- Chapter 6. Past participle agreement
- Chapter 7. Concluding remarks
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Amato, Irene Auxiliary Selection in Italo-Romance
- ISBN:
- 9789027249272
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