Fundamental issues in the Romance languages
By: edited by Daniele Godard.
Contributors: Godard, Danièle.
Series: CSLI lecture notes -- no. 195
Publisher: CSLI Publications; Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781575865874; 9781575865867
Subjects: Romance languages -- Grammar
Description: "Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages compares six Romance languages - Catalan, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian - and summarizes the last thirty years of scholarship in the fields of morphology, syntax, semantics, and discourse for each language. The up-to-date analyses in this volume make it essential for undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars of each language."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Daniele Godard; title: Verb stem variations in Romance / Liliane Tasmowski and Sanda Reinheimer; title: Clitic pronouns in the Romance languages / Philip Miller and Paola Monachesi; title: Complex predicates in the Romance languages / Anne Abeille and Daniele Godard; title: Auxiliaries and intransitivity in French and in Romance / Geraldine Legendre and Antonella Sorace; title: Bare nouns in the Romance Languages / Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and Brenda Laca; title: Negation in the simple clause in the Romance languages / Francis Corblin and Lucia Tovena; title: Subject inversion and discourse in Romance / Jean-Marie Marandin.