Prepositional Clauses in Spanish : : A Diachronic and Comparative Syntactic Study / / Manuel Delicado Cantero.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Delicado Cantero, Manuel,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Language Change [SLC] , 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; List of tables --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. Categories, syntax, and change --; Chapter 3. Historical Spanish --; Chapter 4. Present-day Spanish --; Chapter 5. Crosslinguistic perspective: Romance languages I --; Chapter 6. Crosslinguistic perspective: Romance languages II --; Chapter 7. Conclusions --; References --; Subject index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781614510628; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110317350; 9783110317244; 9783110317237
• ISSN: 2163-0992
• DOI: 10.1515/9781614510628
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Manuel Delicado Cantero.

This book presents an analysis of Spanish prepositional clauses (Prepositional argument and adjunct clauses are grammatical in present-day Spanish. However, Medieval Spanish only attests the latter; the former were not frequent until the 16th/17th centuries. Both types are examined in their syntactic evolution and properties, including clausal nominality, argumenthood, nature of prepositions, and optionality.Latin and Portuguese, French, and Italian - both in their present-day and past forms - are studied and compared to Spanish. Likewise, several Germanic languages are surveyed. These languages show variable grammatical degrees of This study offers a novel approach to the analysis of Spanish prepositional clauses by looking at its properties and formation not only from within but also in contrast with other languages. It argues for cross-linguistically valid categories and explanations in order to comprehend the properties of human language.