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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in Language Companion Series,
0165-7763 ;
v. 131
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Studies in language companion series ; v. 131.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
In this paper we claim that the emergence of the existential pro-form in early Italo-Romance is motivated by the overt marking of definiteness on the pivot. The available data from a relatively large corpus of early Italo-Romance texts dating from C13th to C16th suggest that the overt marking of definiteness, which differentiates Romance from its ancestor Latin, favours the establishment of an existential pattern where the encoding of non-canonical pivots (definite ones) is licensed only if a locative element occurs in the structure; this can be a locative phrase, a locative relative pronoun o. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Argument structure and encoding strategies -- pt. 2. Argument structure and verb classes -- pt. 3. Unexpressed arguments. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Ergative constructions.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Ergative constructions. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Case.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Case. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. |
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Generative grammar.
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Generative grammar. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gelderen, Elly van, editor.
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Cennamo, Michela, editor.
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Jóhanna Barðdal, 1969- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Argument Structure in Flux. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013 9789027205988 (DLC) 2012047024 (OCoLC)819717384 |
| ISBN |
9789027272287 (electronic book) |
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902727228X (electronic book) |
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9789027205988 |
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9027205981 |
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