Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages /

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...

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Main Author:	Mackenzie, Ian (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Series:	Palgrave studies in pragmatics, language, and cognition.
Subjects:	Linguistics. Grammar. Syntax. Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax. Grammar, Comparative and general. Language and languages > Grammars. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	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.
Item Description:	Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (XII, 230 pages)
ISBN:	9780230627550
DOI:	10.1057/9780230627550