Grammatical categories : variation in romance languages

The Resource Grammatical categories : variation in romance languages
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Grammatical categories : variation in romance languages
Title remainder
variation in romance languages
Statement of responsibility
M. Rita Manzini, Leonardo Maria Savoia
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Language
eng
Summary
"Grammatical categories (e.g. complementizer, negation, auxiliary, case) are some of the most important building blocks of syntax and morphology. Categorization therefore poses fundamental questions about grammatical structures and about the lexicon from which they are built. Adopting a 'lexicalist' stance, the authors argue that lexical items are not epiphenomena, but really represent the mapping of sound to meaning (and vice versa) that classical conceptions imply. Their rule-governed combination creates words, phrases and sentences - structured by the 'categories' that are the object of the present inquiry. They argue that the distinction between functional and non-functional categories, between content words and inflections, is not as deeply rooted in grammar as is often thought. In their argumentation they lay the emphasis on empirical evidence, drawn mainly from dialectal variation in the Romance languages, as well as from Albanian"--
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MiAaPQ
Dewey number
415
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
P240.5
LC item number
.M36 2011
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Cambridge studies in linguistics
Series volume
128
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