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oapen-20.500.12657-327392022-04-26T11:21:07Z Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy Bentley, Delia Ciconte, Francesco Maria Cruschina, Silvio sardinian there-sentences existential role and reference grammar locative italo-romance microvariation dialects romance Clitic Copula (linguistics) Noun phrase Predicate (grammar) Pro-form bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, etc bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax & morphology 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. 2016-12-31 23:55:55 2018-10-03 09:09:28 2020-04-01T14:17:54Z 2020-04-01T14:17:54Z 2015 book 606709 OCN: 931531096 9780198745266 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32739 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 606709.pdf https://global.oup.com/academic/product/existentials-and-locatives-in-romance-dialects-of-italy-9780198745266 Oxford University Press 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198745266.001.0001 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198745266.001.0001 b9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2 08ee9d08-628f-4db8-aea8-9a2c0dbb3420 9780198745266 320 Oxford, UK RCUK open access
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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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