Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax (Manuals of Romance Linguistics, 17)

"This volume offers theoretically informed surveys of topics that have figured prominently in morphosyntactic and syntactic research into Romance languages and dialects. We define syntax as being the linguistic component that assembles linguistic units, such as roots or functional morphemes, into grammatical sentences, and morphosyntax as being an umbrella term for all morphological relations between these linguistic units, which either trigger morphological marking (e.g. explicit case morphemes) or are related to ordering issues (e.g. subjects precede finite verbs whenever there is number agreement between them). All 24 chapters adopt a comparative perspective on these two fields of research, highlighting cross-linguistic grammatical similarities and differences within the Romance language family. In addition, many chapters address issues related to variation observable within individual Romance languages, and grammatical change from Latin to Romance"-- Provided by publisher Manuals of Romance Linguistics......Page 5 Table of Contents......Page 7 Abbreviations......Page 11 1. Introduction......Page 17 2. Subjects......Page 43 3. Objects......Page 105 4. Argument structure and argument structure alternations......Page 170 5. Clitic pronouns......Page 199 6. Voice and voice alternations......Page 246 7. Auxiliaries......Page 288 8. Causative and perception verbs......Page 315 9. Copular and existential constructions......Page 348 10. Infinitival clauses......Page 385 11. Tense, aspect, mood......Page 413 12. Negation and polarity......Page 465 13. Dislocations and framings......Page 488 14. Focus Fronting......Page 518 15. Cleft constructions......Page 552 16. Interrogatives......Page 585 17. Exclamatives, imperatives, optatives......Page 619 18. Coordination and correlatives......Page 663 19. Gender and number......Page 707 20. Determination and quantification......Page 743 21. Adjectival and genitival modification......Page 787 22. Relative clauses......Page 820 23. Syntheticity and Analyticity......Page 855 24. Basic constituent orders......Page 903 List of Contributors......Page 949 Index......Page 957 Manuals of Romance Linguistics 5 Table of Contents 7 Abbreviations 11 1. Introduction 17 The verbal domain 43 2. Subjects 43 3. Objects 105 4. Argument structure and argument structure alternations 170 5. Clitic pronouns 199 6. Voice and voice alternations 246 7. Auxiliaries 288 8. Causative and perception verbs 315 9. Copular and existential constructions 348 The clausal and sentential domains 385 10. Infinitival clauses 385 11. Tense, aspect, mood 413 12. Negation and polarity 465 13. Dislocations and framings 488 14. Focus Fronting 518 15. Cleft constructions 552 16. Interrogatives 585 17. Exclamatives, imperatives, optatives 619 18. Coordination and correlatives 663 The nominal domain 707 19. Gender and number 707 20. Determination and quantification 743 21. Adjectival and genitival modification 787 22. Relative clauses 820 Typological aspects 855 23. Syntheticity and Analyticity 855 24. Basic constituent orders 903 List of Contributors 949 Index 957