Screen LibraryPrepositional clauses in Spanish : a diachronic and comparative syntactic study /
This book presents a historical and comparative syntactic analysis of Spanish prepositional clauses - traditionally called complement and adverbial clauses. This study examines the properties behind the evolution of clauses introduced by prepositions in Spanish, including clausal nominality, argumen...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Studies in language change [slc];
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| Summary: |
This book presents a historical and comparative syntactic analysis of Spanish prepositional clauses - traditionally called complement and adverbial clauses. This study examines the properties behind the evolution of clauses introduced by prepositions in Spanish, including clausal nominality, argumenthood, and preposition optionality. It devotes special attention to the nature and constraints of comparable constructions in other past and present European languages, particularly Portuguese, French, and Italian. |
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1 online resource(xii,314pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9781614510628 |
| Index Number: | PC4390 |
| CLC: | H346 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Categories, syntax, and change -- Chapter 3. Historical Spanish -- Chapter 4. Present-day Spanish -- Chapter 5. Crosslinguistic perspective: Romance languages I -- Chapter 6. Crosslinguistic perspective: Romance languages II -- Chapter 7. Conclusions -- References -- Subject index. |