Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages
Description
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.
Keywords
Language Arts & DisciplinesGrammar & PunctuationLinguisticsSyntaxHistorical & Comparative
2006Book
Author(s)I. E. Mackenzie
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781403949189
LanguageEnglish
