基本説明
This landmark volume is the first work specifically designed to explore the extent to which striking surface morpho-syntactic similarities between Bantu and Romance languages actually represent similar syntactic structures.
Full Description
This landmark volume is the first work specifically designed to explore the extent to which striking surface morpho-syntactic similarities between Bantu and Romance languages actually represent similar syntactic structures. In particular, it explores the timely and much debated issues of verbal morphology and agreement, the structure of DPs, and word order/information structure, with the goal of providing a better understanding of the structure of the different languages investigated, and the implications this holds for syntactic theory more generally. All of the papers draw on data from both Bantu and Romance languages, providing a framework for much-needed further comparative research on the nature of linguistic structure, its diversity and constraints, and the implications this has for learnability/acquisition. The volume also provides an important precedent for incorporating insights from Bantu linguistic structure into mainstream of syntax research.
Contents
1. Acknowledgments; 2. List of contributors; 3. Introduction; 4. Part 1. Clitics and agreement; 5. Concepts of structural underspecification in Bantu and Romance (by Marten, Lutz); 6. On different types of clitic clusters (by Cardinaletti, Anna); 7. Pronominal object markers in Romance and Bantu (by Labelle, Marie); 8. The Bantu-Romance connection in verb movement and verbal inflectional morphology (by Harford, Carolyn); 9. Part 2. The structure of DPs; 10. DP in Bantu and Romance (by Carstens, Vicki); 11. On the interpretability of phi-features (by Zamparelli, Roberto); 12. Agreement and concord in nominal expressions (by Giusti, Giuliana); 13. A unified syntactic analysis of Italian and Luganda nouns (by Ferrari-Bridgers, Franca); 14. Part 3. Information structure; 15. The fine structure of the Topic field (by Frascarelli, Mara); 16. Focus at the interface: Evidence from Romance and Bantu (by Costa, Joao); 17. Agreement in thetic VS sentences in Bantu and Romance (by Wal, Jenneke van der); 18. Index of languages; 19. General index
