Author : I. Mackenzie
Release : 2006-03-21
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 552/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages by : I. Mackenzie
Download or read book Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages written by I. Mackenzie. This book was released on 2006-03-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author questions the status quo in Romance linguistics. The Ergative/Unaccusative syntactic approach has been accepted as the orthodox analytical paradigm. He re-examines both the theoretical imperative and the empirical evidence for that approach, drawing on a large amount of new and surprising data from Italian, Spanish, French and Catalan.