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Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistic change. --- Reflexives. --- Transitivity.

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Latin language --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- History. --- Analysis, Linguistic (Linguistics) --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- History

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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

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Generative grammar. --- Ergative constructions. --- Case. --- Syntax. --- 801.56 --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Case. --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Ergative constructions. --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. --- Generative grammar --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Ergative constructions --- Case --- Syntax --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Grammar, Generative --- Grammar, Transformational --- Grammar, Transformational generative --- Transformational generative grammar --- Transformational grammar --- Language and languages --- Ergative (Linguistics) --- Derivation --- Ergative case --- Psycholinguistics --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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The volume brings together the papers read at the international conference on Romance Objects organized by the Linguistics Department of the Roma Tre University. It is characterized by a striking uniformity of approach, which is functional, and of methodology. The various case studies regarding the object focus on the syntax/semantics and syntax/pragmatics interfaces. The common denominator of the ten enquiries is the identification of the object category, the DO in particular, in Romance languages; at the same time some of the contributors relate the specific topic to more general questions of linguistic typology. Some of the essays are based on the analysis of data from a corpus and present a diachronic picture of the evolution of the specific topic investigated. Thus this volume is addressed not only to scholars interested in the Romance languages but also all those who study the object category in a cross-linguistic perspective. Michela Cennamo: (In)transitivity and object marking: some current issues.

Romance languages --- Neo-Latin languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Morphology. --- Transitivity

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Valency patterns and valency orientation have been frequent topics of research under different perspectives, often poorly connected. Diachronic studies on these topics is even less systematic than synchronic ones. The papers in this book bring together two strands of research on valency, i.e. the description of valency patterns as worked out in the Leipzig Valency Classes Project (ValPaL), and the assessment of a language's basic valency and its possible orientation. Notably, the ValPaL does not provide diachronic information concerning the valency patterns investigated: one of the aims of the book is to supplement the available data with data from historical stages of languages, in order to make it profitably exploitable for diachronic research. In addition, new research on the diachrony of basic valency and valency alternations can deepen our understanding of mechanisms of language change and of the propensity of languages or language families to exploit different constructional patterns related to transitivity.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. --- Language Change. --- Transitivity. --- Valency. --- Voice.