TY  - BOOK
AU  - Manzini,Maria Rita
AU  - Savoia,Leonardo Maria
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Grammatical categories: variation in romance languages 
T2  - Cambridge studies in linguistics
AV  - P240.5 .M36 2011eb
U1  - 415 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Grammatical categories
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Variation
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the biolinguistic perspective; 1. The structure and interpretation of (Romance) complementizers; 2. Variation in Romance k-complementizer systems; 3. Sentential negation: adverbs; 4. Sentential negation: clitics; 5. The middle-passive voice: evidence from Albanian; 6. The auxiliary: have/be alternations in the perfect; 7. The noun (phrase): agreement, case and definiteness in an Albanian variety; 8. (Definite) denotation and case in Romance: history and variation; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "Grammatical categories (e.g. complementizer, negation, auxiliary, case) are some of the most important building blocks of syntax and morphology. Categorization therefore poses fundamental questions about grammatical structures and about the lexicon from which they are built. Adopting a 'lexicalist' stance, the authors argue that lexical items are not epiphenomena, but really represent the mapping of sound to meaning (and vice versa) that classical conceptions imply. Their rule-governed combination creates words, phrases and sentences - structured by the 'categories' that are the object of the present inquiry. They argue that the distinction between functional and non-functional categories, between content words and inflections, is not as deeply rooted in grammar as is often thought. In their argumentation they lay the emphasis on empirical evidence, drawn mainly from dialectal variation in the Romance languages, as well as from Albanian"--
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10470722
ER  -