Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages von I Mackenzie

Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages
Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
ISBN/EAN: 9781349525508
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: xii, 230 S.
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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.
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),