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Titel:Grammatical categories
variation in romance languages
Von: M. Rita Manzini (University of Florence), Leonardo M. Savoia (University of Florence)
Person: Manzini, Maria Rita
1948-
Verfasser
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Savoia, Leonardo Maria
Sonstige
Hauptverfasser: Manzini, Maria Rita 1948- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York ; Melbourne ; Madrid ; Cape Town ; Singapore ; São Paulo ; Delhi ; Tokyo ; Mexiko City Cambridge University Press 2011
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in linguistics 128
Notation:IB 1140
IB 1260
IB 1220
IB 1270
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Medienzugang:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511974489
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511974489
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511974489
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511974489
Zusammenfassung:Grammatical categories (e.g. complementizer, negation, auxiliary, case) are some of the most important building blocks of syntax and morphology. Categorization therefore poses fundamental questions about grammatical structures and about the lexicon from which they are built. Adopting a 'lexicalist' stance, the authors argue that lexical items are not epiphenomena, but really represent the mapping of sound to meaning (and vice versa) that classical conceptions imply. Their rule-governed combination creates words, phrases and sentences - structured by the 'categories' that are the object of the present inquiry. They argue that the distinction between functional and non-functional categories, between content words and inflections, is not as deeply rooted in grammar as is often thought. In their argumentation they lay the emphasis on empirical evidence, drawn mainly from dialectal variation in the Romance languages, as well as from Albanian
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 351 Seiten) Diagramme
ISBN:9780511974489
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511974489