Romance Objects : : Transitivity in Romance Languages / / ed. by Giuliana Fiorentino.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Bossong, Georg,; Cennamo, Michela,; Ciscomani, Rosa María Ortiz,; Fiorentino, Giuliana,; Koch, Peter,; Lazard, Gilbert,; Nocentini, Alberto,; Roegiest, Eugeen,; Siller-Runggaldier, Heidi,
• HerausgeberIn: Fiorentino, Giuliana,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 27
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 p.)

The volume brings together the papers read at the international conference on Romance Objects organized by the Linguistics Department of the Roma Tre University. It is characterized by a striking uniformity of approach, which is functional, and of methodology. The various case studies regarding the object focus on the syntax/semantics and syntax/pragmatics interfaces. The common denominator of the ten enquiries is the identification of the object category, the DO in particular, in Romance languages; at the same time some of the contributors relate the specific topic to more general questions of linguistic typology. Some of the essays are based on the analysis of data from a corpus and present a diachronic picture of the evolution of the specific topic investigated. Thus this volume is addressed not only to scholars interested in the Romance languages but also all those who study the object category in a cross-linguistic perspective. Michela Cennamo: (In)transitivity and object marking: some current issues.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Section 1: Object marking in cross-linguistic perspective -- What is an object in a crosslinguistic perspective ? -- Nominal and/ or verbal marking of central actants -- (In)transitivity and object marking: some current issues -- Section 2: Transitivity and objects in Romance languages -- The object clitic pronoun in Italian: a functional interpretation -- Prepositional objects in Neapolitan -- From subject to object and from object to subject: (de)personalization, floating and reanalysis in presentative verbs -- Changes of valence and their effect on objects -- Transitivity and Grammaticalization of Object. The diachronic struggle of direct and indirect object in Spanish -- Non-diachrony of ditransitivity in Spanish -- Argument structure of perception verbs and actance variation of the Spanish direct object -- Subject Index