Syntactic variation and verb second : a German dialect in northern Italy
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Syntactic variation and verb second : a German dialect in northern Italy
(Linguistik aktuell, v. 201)
J. Benjamins, c2013
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Note
"This monograph is a fully revised version of my PhD dissertation defended in March 2010 at the University of Padua."--P. [ix]
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This monograph investigates the syntax of the finite verb in Mocheno, a minority language spoken in a German speech island of Northern Italy. Basing her study on detailed new data collected during extensive fieldwork, and focusing on finite verb movement; on multiple access to the left periphery; on pro licensing and on the distribution of OV/VO word orders, the author refutes the traditional view that the syntactic variation found in Mocheno is due to the presence of two competing grammars as a consequence of contact with Romance varieties and accounts for the peculiarities of Mocheno syntax within a theory couched in the framework of Generative Grammar. This book contributes to our understanding of the verb-second phenomenon and sheds new light on the asymmetries between Old Romance and Germanic verb-second languages. A useful tool for all linguists working on both theoretical and comparative syntax and to anyone interested in language variation, dialectology and typology.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowledgments
- 2. List of abbreviations
- 3. 1. Introduction
- 4. 2. Mocheno and the V2 phenomenon
- 5. 3. The syntax of subject pronouns
- 6. 4. Satisfaction of EPP and realization of subjects
- 7. 5. Mocheno as a partial pro-drop language
- 8. 6. Multiple access to CP and asymmetric pro-drop
- 9. 7. Conclusions
- 10. References
- 11. Appendix
- 12. Index
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