Syntactic and Morphosyntactic Typology and Change

Ledgeway, Adam

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“…L a expresión de la superlación en latín solía hacerse mediante la estrategia morfológica -ISSIMUS-A-UM, si bien llegó a convivir con construcciones analíticas, en las que se introducían las formas MAXIME o PLURIMUM más adjetivo (Rohlfs;Bruyne 1980Bruyne y 1986Pinkster;Ledgeway). La principal diferencia entre las dos estrategias residía en que la sintética servía para la superlación absoluta, mientras que la analítica era más productiva para la superlación relativa.…”

Section: El Superlativo: Del Latín Al Españolunclassified

El superlativo absoluto en el español peninsular del siglo XX

Bermejo

2017

Rilce. Revista de Filología Hispánica

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Resumen: El superlativo absoluto en español puede construirse mediante el adverbio muy o el sufi jo -ísimo. A pesar de que la reintroducción de la forma morfológica ha sido datada de fi nales de la Edad Media, investigaciones más recientes apuntan al siglo XIX como fecha clave para su popularización. Con el fi n de analizar su distribución dialectal en el español peninsular a lo largo del siglo XX, hemos extraído datos del Atlas lingüístico de la Península Ibérica (ALPI) y de otros posteriores. De acuerdo con estos, observamos que, efectivamente, el sufi jo -ísimo está circunscrito a un área geográfi ca determinada, mientras que muy ocupa la zona restante, sin dar apenas ocurrencias de la solución morfológica. A ello hay que añadir el uso de mucho (muncho en ciertos enclaves) como grado del adjetivo, siendo este fenómeno una reminiscencia del estado lingüístico del paso del latín al español.Palabras clave: Dialectología. Geolingüística. Adverbios. Superlativo. -ísimo. Abstract:The absolute superlative in Spanish can be expressed with the adverb muy or the suffix -ísimo. Despite the fact that the reintroduction of the morphological strategy is said to have occurred in the late Middle Ages, latest research point out that the 19th century was crucial for its universalisation. With the aim of analysing its dialect distribution in Peninsular Spanish throughout the 20th century, I have collected data from the Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula (ALPI) and other carried out later. Based on these results, the suffi x -ísimo is restricted within a specifi c geographic area whereas muy occupies the rest of the studied zone. Furthermore, some dialects still use mucho (muncho in certain municipalities) to produce the degree of the adjective, the same way they did it in the evolution from Latin to Spanish.

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El superlativo absoluto en el español peninsular del siglo XX

Bermejo

2017

Rilce. Revista de Filología Hispánica

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“…Oniga 1988, Elerick 1992, Bauer 1995, Vincent 1988, Polo 2004, Salvi 2004, Devine and Stephens 2006, Magni 2009, Ledgeway 2012a Other orders are also grammatical, but they serve to convey pragmatically marked interpretations (e.g. Pinkster 1990: 181, Bauer 1995: 6, Vincent 1998: 418-19, Salvi 2005Ledgeway 2012a: 59).…”

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“…We claim that the emergence of the proform is to be understood in the context of the overt marking of definiteness (Ciconte 2010(Ciconte , 2011, which is in turn part of a major change in the expression of nominal and verbal operators. This is dealt with in the literature as the rise of overt functional structure (see Benincà 1988, Salvi 2004, Ledgeway 2012a Existentials can also exhibit a focal coda, which normally occurs either in immediately pre-copular or in immediately post-copular position (cf. 30a,b).…”

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“…However, discourse plays a role in constraining Latin word order (e.g. Bauer 1995: 6, Vincent 1988, Salvi 2004, Devine and Stephens 2006, Ledgeway 2012a: 150-56, 2012b. Since different kinds of there sentence tend to be associated with different kinds of focus structure, word order allows us to discern the argumental or predicative role of the post-copular noun phrase.…”

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Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy

Bentley

Ciconte

Cruschina

2015

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This volume provides the first ever large-scale comparative treatment of there sentences (there copula NP), reporting the results of a survey of Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects of Italy. The volume comprises detailed discussions of focus structure, predication and argument realization, the definiteness effects, and the linking from semantics to syntax in there sentences, advancing novel proposals in each case. The testing of influential hypotheses on existential constructions against first-hand dialect evidence leads the book to argue that existential and locative there sentences differ in focus structure and semantics, although their not being predicate focus constructions and the non-canonicality of the predicate—which is typically referential—is reflected in their shared morphosyntactic features. The hypothesis that the pivot is the predicate of the existential construction is adopted in the analysis, although a distinction is drawn between referential and non-referential pivots, which explains variation in pivot behaviour in morphosyntax. The volume also provides the historical background of Romance there sentences, relying on the findings of the analysis of a substantial corpus of early Italo-Romance vernacular texts.

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“…Another section that can arouse the reader's interest is §5.3.3, which deals with "[m]eans of encoding nominal phrase internal possession". Romanian has preserved a "dual adjectival-determiner paradigm" (p. 377) that other Romance languages have lost (Ledgeway 2011). The last part of the chapter on the structure of the nominal phrase tackles nouns that take arguments, restrictive and non-restrictive modifiers, appositions and classifiers, and configurations of nominal ellipsis.…”

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The Grammar of Romanian (Oxford Linguistics). Ed. by Gabriela Pană Dindelegan

Ciutescu

2015

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Syntactic and Morphosyntactic Typology and Change

Cited by 99 publications

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El superlativo absoluto en el español peninsular del siglo XX

El superlativo absoluto en el español peninsular del siglo XX

Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy

The Grammar of Romanian (Oxford Linguistics). Ed. by Gabriela Pană Dindelegan

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