Details

Subject(s)

• Romance languages—Word order [Browse]
• Romance languages—Topic and comment [Browse]
• Grammar, Comparative and general [Browse]

Editor

• Hulk, A. (Aafke) [Browse]
• Pollock, J.-Y. (Jean-Yves) [Browse]

Series

• Oxford studies in comparative syntax. [More in this series]
• Oxford scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

The Romance Languages document remarkable variations in subject word order in different constructions, and have various restrictions in their occurrence. No consensus has emerged on what the paramaters are for such variations. This volume does not attempt to create a consensus, but tries to represent and bring into dialogue the different sides of the debate.

Notes

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Language note

English

Contents

Contents; Contributors; 1. Subject Positions in Romance and the Theory of Universal Grammar; 2. On Inversion in Wh-questions in Romance; 3. ""Inversion"" as Focalization; 4. Marked versus Unmarked Inversion and Optimality Theory; 5. New Thoughts on Stylistic Inversion; 6. Subject Extraction, the Distribution of Expletives, and Stylistic Inversion; 7. The Constraint on Preverbal Subjects in Romance Interrogatives: A Minimality Effect; Index

ISBN

• 0-19-772252-0
• 1-280-53124-X
• 1-4237-3808-X
• 0-19-534954-7
• 1-60256-442-6

OCLC

• 191038396
• 1406782788

Doi

10.1093/oso/9780195142693.001.0001

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