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

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 27
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Physical Description:1 online resource (330 p.)
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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