Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages

By:

I. Mackenzie

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Hardback

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition

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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.

Author Biography:

IAN E. MACKENZIE is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. His specialist areas are Spanish syntax and semantics, philosophy of language and Spanish in Latin America. He is the author of four books including Spanish: an Essential Grammar (with Peter T. Bradley),

Release date NZ

March 21st, 2006

Author

I. Mackenzie

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Undergraduate

Illustrations

XII, 230 p.

Pages

230

Series

Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition

Dimensions

140x216x19

ISBN-13

9781403949189

Product ID

2250689

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