Description: Romance Object Clitics : Microvariation and Linguistic Change, Hardcover by Pescarini, Diego, ISBN 0198864388, ISBN-13 9780198864387, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This book offers an empirical and theoretical exploration of the development of object clitic pronouns in the Romance languages, drawing on data from Latin, medieval vernaculars, modern Romance languages, and lesser-known dialects. Diego Pescarini examines phonological, morphological, and
especially syntactic aspects of Romance object clitics, using the findings to reconstruct their evolution from Latin to Romance and to model clitic placement in modern Romance languages. On the theoretical side, the volume engages with previous accounts of clitics, particularly in generative theory.
It challenges the received idea that cliticization resulted from a form of syntactic deficiency; instead, it proposes that clitics resulted from the feature endowment of discourse features, which initially caused freezing of certain pronominal forms and then - through reanalysis - their successive
incorporation to verbal hosts. This approach leads to a revision of earlier analyses of well-known phenomena such as interpolation, climbing, and enclisis/proclisis alternations, and to new approaches to issues including V2 syntax, scrambling, and stylistic fronting, among many others.
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Book Title: Romance Object Clitics : Microvariation and Linguistic Change
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Romance Object Clitics : Microvariation and Linguistic Change
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Romance Languages (Other), Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Language Course
Item Weight: 23.4 Oz
Subject Area: Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines
Author: Diego Pescarini
Item Length: 9.5 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics Ser.
Format: Hardcover
