LINGUIST List 17.1594

Thu May 25 2006

Books: History of Linguistics/Semantics: Mackenzie

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Directory         1.    Palgrave Macmillan, Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages: Mackenzie
Message 1: Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages: Mackenzie
Date: 24-May-2006
From: Palgrave Macmillan <palgravemacmillanpalgrave.com>
Subject: Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages: Mackenzie


Title: Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages Published: 2006 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
                http://www.palgrave.com

Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403949182

Author: Ian E. Mackenzie, University of Newcastle Hardback: ISBN: 1403949182 Pages: 248 Price: U.K. £ 50
Abstract:

The author questions the status quo in Romance linguistics regarding suchmatters as auxiliary selection, partitive cliticization, bare subjects,participle agreement, and more. For the past two decades theErgative/Unaccusative syntactic approach has been accepted as the orthodoxanalytical paradigm. He here re-examines both the theoretical imperativeand the empirical evidence for that approach, drawing on a large amount ofnew and surprising data from Italian, Spanish, French and Catalan, andconcludes that it is essentially unmotivated. Alternative explanations areadvanced, based on information structure, semantics and the impact onsynchrony of diachronic change. The picture that emerges is one of acomplex but interrelated set of causalities.

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics                             Semantics
Subject Language(s): Catalan-Valencian-Balear (cat)                             French (fra)                             Italian (ita)                             Spanish (spa) Language Family(ies): Romance
Written In: English (eng )

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