| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 306 pages) : maps |
| Summary |
This book provides the first ever large-scale comparative treatment of there sentences (there copula NP), in over 100 Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects spoken in Italy. It comprises detailed discussions of focus structure, predication and argument realization, definiteness effects, and the linking between semantics and syntax in there sentences, advancing novel proposals in each case. The authors test influential hypotheses on existential constructions against first-hand dialect evidence; they argue that existential and locative there sentences differ in focus structure and semantics, even though they display similar morphosyntactic features. The volume also provides the historical background of Romance there sentences, relying on the findings of the analysis of a substantial corpus of early Italo-Romance vernacular texts. Couched in the framework of Role and Reference Grammar, the discussion fully engages with the vast available literature on existentials and locatives, thus being of interest to linguists of any theoretical persuasion.0Through the investigation of existentials and locatives, the volume addresses key issues in linguistic theory, while offering an invaluable source of data for research on the Romance languages and a model in fieldwork-based microvariational analysis. |
| Contents |
Dialect maps -- 1. Existentials and locatives in Romance dialects of Italy : introduction / Delia Bentley -- 2. Focus structure / Silvio Cruschina -- 3. Predication and argument realization / Delia Bentley -- 4. Definiteness effects and linking / Delia Bentley -- 5. Historical context / Francesco Maria Ciconte -- 6. Conclusion / Delia Bentley -- Appendix 1: Early Romance sources -- Appendix 2: Latin sources. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-294) and indexes. |
| Local Note |
Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Open Access Books |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Italian language -- Dialects -- Existential constructions.
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Italian language -- Dialects -- Locative constructions.
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Grammar, syntax and morphology Mod Grammar, syntax and morphology.
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Language.
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linguistics.
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Semantics, discourse analysis, etc. Mod Semantics, discourse analysis, etc.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- French.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Romance Languages (Other)
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Syntax.
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Italoromanisch.
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Dialektologie.
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Existenzialsatz.
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Lokativ.
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Romance Languages.
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Languages & Literatures.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ciconte, Francesco Maria, author.
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Cruschina, Silvio, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bentley, Delia. Existentials and locatives in Romance dialects of Italy. Corby : Oxford University Press 2015 9780198745266 (OCoLC)903804139 |
| ISBN |
9780191806230 |
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0191806234 |
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9780191062469 |
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0191062464 |
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9780198745266 |
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0198745265 |
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