Grammatical categories : variation in romance languages / / M. Rita Manzini, Leonardo Maria Savoia.

"Grammatical categories (e.g. complementizer, negation, auxiliary, case) are some of the most important building blocks of syntax and morphology. Categorization therefore poses fundamental questions about grammatical structures and about the lexicon from which they are built. Adopting a 'l...

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Superior document:Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 128
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 128.
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Physical Description:xi, 351 p. :; ill.
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  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the biolinguistic perspective; 1. The structure and interpretation of (Romance) complementizers; 2. Variation in Romance k-complementizer systems; 3. Sentential negation: adverbs; 4. Sentential negation: clitics; 5. The middle-passive voice: evidence from Albanian; 6. The auxiliary: have/be alternations in the perfect; 7. The noun (phrase): agreement, case and definiteness in an Albanian variety; 8. (Definite) denotation and case in Romance: history and variation.