Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance / / Christoph Gabriel, Susann Fischer.

Different components of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. It has been under debate what the actual range of interaction is and how we can most appropriately represent this in grammatical theory. The volume provides a general overview of various topics in the linguistics of Romance languages by e...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Manuals of Romance Linguistics ; 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 691 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Manuals of Romance Linguistics
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of contents
  • Grammatical interfaces in Romance languages: An introduction
  • 1. Surface sound and underlying structure: The phonetics-phonology interface
  • 2. Segmental phenomena and their interactions: Evidence for prosodic organization and the architecture of grammar
  • 3. Prosodic phonology and its interfaces
  • 4. Phonology and morphology in Optimality Theory
  • 5. Inflectional verb morphology
  • 6. Meaning of words and meaning of sentences
  • 7. Morphology and semantics: Aspect and modality
  • 8. (In)definiteness, specificity, and differential object marking
  • 9. Agreement restrictions and agreement oddities
  • 10. Auxiliary selection
  • 11. Subjects, null subjects, and expletives
  • 12. Object clitics
  • 13. Nominalizations
  • 14. Information structure, prosody, and word order
  • 15 VP and TP ellipsis: Sentential polarity and information structure
  • 16. Existential constructions
  • 17. Acquiring multilingual phonologies (2L1, L2 and L3): Are the difficulties in the interfaces?
  • 18. Interfaces with syntax in language acquisition
  • 19. The role of the interfaces in syntactic change
  • 20. Interfacing interfaces: Quechua and Spanish in the Andes
  • 21. Grammaticalization and pragmaticalization
  • 22. Changes at the syntax-discourse interface
  • Index