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Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages
Ian Mackenzie
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Paperback. 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. Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349525508
SKU
V9781349525508
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About Ian Mackenzie
IAN E. MACKENZIE is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. His specialist areas are Spanish syntax and semantics, philosophy of language and Spanish in Latin America. He is the author of four books including Spanish: an Essential Grammar (with Peter T. Bradley),
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