Syntactic Variation and Verb Second: A German dialect in Northern Italy
Federica Cognola
This monograph investigates the syntax of the finite verb in Mòcheno, a minority language spoken in a German speech island of Northern Italy. Basing her study on detailed new data collected during extensive fieldwork, and focusing on finite verb movement; on multiple access to the left periphery; on pro licensing and on the distribution of OV/VO word orders, the author refutes the traditional view that the syntactic variation found in Mòcheno is due to the presence of two competing grammars as a consequence of contact with Romance varieties and accounts for the peculiarities of Mòcheno syntax within a theory couched in the framework of Generative Grammar. This book contributes to our understanding of the verb-second phenomenon and sheds new light on the asymmetries between Old Romance and Germanic verb-second languages. A useful tool for all linguists working on both theoretical and comparative syntax and to anyone interested in language variation, dialectology and typology.
년:
2013
출판사:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
언어:
english
페이지:
337
ISBN 10:
9027255849
ISBN 13:
9789027255846
시리즈:
Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
파일:
PDF, 1.14 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013