Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages E-Book

I. Mackenzie

• Herausgeber: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2006

Beschreibung

The author questions the status quo in Romance linguistics. The Ergative/Unaccusative syntactic approach has been accepted as the orthodox analytical paradigm. He re-examines both the theoretical imperative and the empirical evidence for that approach, drawing on a large amount of new and surprising data from Italian, Spanish, French and Catalan.