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Syntactic Variation

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The study of Romance languages can tell us a great deal about sentence structure and its variation in general. Focusing on the dialects of Italy including the islands of Sardinia and Sicily the authors explore three thematic areas: the nominal domain, the verbal domain and the left periphery of the clause. The book gives fresh attention to the dialects, arguing that they offer an unprecedented degree of variation . Analysing a host of new data, the authors show how the dialects can be used as a test-bed for investigating and challenging received ideas about language structure and change. Coherent and wide-ranging, this is a vital resource for those working in syntactic theory, historical linguistics, and Romance languages.

Language: English

Pages: 368

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: January 14, 2010

ISBN: 0521517362

ISBN 13: 9780521517362

Syntactic Variation

0/5 ( ratings)

The study of Romance languages can tell us a great deal about sentence structure and its variation in general. Focusing on the dialects of Italy including the islands of Sardinia and Sicily the authors explore three thematic areas: the nominal domain, the verbal domain and the left periphery of the clause. The book gives fresh attention to the dialects, arguing that they offer an unprecedented degree of variation . Analysing a host of new data, the authors show how the dialects can be used as a test-bed for investigating and challenging received ideas about language structure and change. Coherent and wide-ranging, this is a vital resource for those working in syntactic theory, historical linguistics, and Romance languages.

Language: English

Pages: 368

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: January 14, 2010

ISBN: 0521517362

ISBN 13: 9780521517362

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