Word Order and Parameter Change in Romanian: A Comparative Romance Perspective b

Description: Word Order and Parameter Change in Romanian by Alexandru Nicolae The book provides a comprehensive description and in-depth analysis of the major word order changes that took place in the transition from old to modern Romanian. It examines a large number of phenomena, from those that are common across Romance to some that are specific to Romanian, filling an important gap in the Romance linguistics literature. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The book provides a comprehensive description and in-depth analysis of the major word order changes that took place in the clausal and the nominal domains in the transition from old to modern Romanian. The data are set in a comparative Romance perspective, with attention also paid to the impact of the Balkan Sprachbund and the influence of Old Church Slavonic. Alexandru Nicolaes analysis is based on a qualitative and quantitative examination of a large number ofphenomena in a representative corpus of old Romanian texts. Some of these phenomena, such as scrambling, interpolation, discontinuous constituents, and variation in the position and linearization ofDP-internal adjectival modifiers, are found across Romance, while others, such as the low position for pronominal cliticization, are relatively rare. Still others are specific to old and modern Romanian, such as the proclitic and enclitic realization of the same pronominal clitic, the low definite article, and the adjectival article construction. From an empirical perspective, the volume fills a gap in the Romance linguistics literature, as several of the phenomena itexplores have been largely neglected to date. More broadly it offers a valuable contribution to research into word order typology and change, the nature and content of syntactic parameters, and the theoryof grammaticalization and syntactic change. Author Biography Alexandru Nicolae is a Researcher at the Iorgu Iordan - Al. Rosetti Institute of Linguistics, Bucharest, and a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, University of Bucharest. He has previously been a Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge and a Fulbright Senior Scholar at MIT. His research interests include minimalist syntax, diachronic syntax, and the syntax of Romanian, and he has contributed to the OUP volumes The Grammar of Romanian(2013), The Syntax of Old Romanian (2016) and The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (2016). Table of Contents PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of tablesAbbreviations, symbols, and conventions1: Word order and parameter change in Romanian: An introduction2: Inversion as a residual old Romance V2 grammar3: Discontiguous linearizations in the sentential core: Interpolation, scrambling, and related phenomena4: Word order in the nominal phrase5: Demonstrative specialization: The emergence of the determiner cel6: Diachronic features of Romanian in a broader comparative settingAppendix: Corpus of old Romanian textsReferencesIndex Long Description The book provides a comprehensive description and in-depth analysis of the major word order changes that took place in the clausal and the nominal domains in the transition from old to modern Romanian. The data are set in a comparative Romance perspective, with attention also paid to the impact of the Balkan Sprachbund and the influence of Old Church Slavonic. Alexandru Nicolaes analysis is based on a qualitative and quantitative examination of a large number ofphenomena in a representative corpus of old Romanian texts. Some of these phenomena, such as scrambling, interpolation, discontinuous constituents, and variation in the position and linearization of DP-internal adjectival modifiers, are found across Romance, while others, such as the low position forpronominal cliticization, are relatively rare. Still others are specific to old and modern Romanian, such as the proclitic and enclitic realization of the same pronominal clitic, the low definite article, and the adjectival article construction. From an empirical perspective, the volume fills a gap in the Romance linguistics literature, as several of the phenomena it explores have been largely neglected to date. More broadly it offers a valuable contribution to research into word order typology and change, the nature and content of syntactic parameters, and the theory of grammaticalization and syntactic change. Feature Based on extensive data from a corpus of old Romanian textsExplores several phenomena that have been neglected in the Romance linguistics literature to dateContributes to broader research into word order change, syntactic parameters, and grammaticalization Details ISBN0198807368 Author Alexandru Nicolae Language English Year 2019 ISBN-10 0198807368 ISBN-13 9780198807360 Format Hardcover Publisher Oxford University Press Imprint Oxford University Press Subtitle A Comparative Romance Perspective Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 440.04 Affiliation Researcher, Iorgu Iordan - Al. Rosetti Institute of Linguistics, Bucharest Position Researcher Short Title Word Order and Parameter Change in Romanian Publication Date 2019-06-06 UK Release Date 2019-06-06 AU Release Date 2019-06-06 NZ Release Date 2019-06-06 Pages 284 Series Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics Series Number 36 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:125411907;

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