E-Book, Englisch, 230 Seiten
Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
Mackenzie Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages
2006
ISBN: 978-0-230-62755-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
E-Book, Englisch, 230 Seiten
Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
ISBN: 978-0-230-62755-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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.
IAN E. MACKENZIE is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. His specialist areas are Spanish syntax and semantics, philosophy of language and Spanish in Latin America. He is the author of four books including Spanish: an Essential Grammar (with Peter T. Bradley),




