The Morphosyntax of Albanian and Aromanian Varieties: Case, Agreement, Complementation (Studies in Generative Grammar [Sgg])

"This book deals with Albanian, including the dialects spoken in Southern Italy, and with the Aromanian spoken in Southern Albania. These languages are set in the context of current generative research on syntax, morphology, language variation and contact - yielding insights into key morphosyntactic notions of case, agreement, complementation, and into phenomena such as Differential Object Marking, the Person Case Constraint, linkers and control"-- Provided by publisher Contents 1. Introduction: Ext, Agree, Parameters I. Nominal inflections, person and case and their syntactic projection 2. Case categories in Albanian 3. N morphology and its interpretation: The neuter in Italian and Albanian varieties 4. Person splits in the case systems of Geg Albanian and Arbëresh: DOM and the PCC II. Lkrs, possessors and agreement in the DP 5. Lkrs in Aromanian in comparison with Albanian 6. Case in Aromanian compared to Romanian: The Person split and agreeing possessives 7. Oblique case in Punjabi: Ergativity splits and agreeing possessors III. Complementation: Particles, Complementizers, Prepositions 8. Finite control (and raising) in Albanian: The subjunctive Prt as Lkr 9. The finite complementation system of Aromanian, in comparison to other Romance languages and Albanian 10. Non-finite complementation in Aromanian and Albanian: prepositional introducers, infinitivals, supines IV. Linguistic Contact 11. Notes on the contact between Italo-Albanian and Romance (Calabrian, Lucanian) varieties: borrowings, code-mixing and convergence 12. Causatives, case, passivization and agreement in the variety of Ginestra (Arbëresh): Against VP-movement and monoclausality References Index The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert M. Rita Manzini, Leonardo M. Savoia. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.