L Burzio

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Italian Syntax: A Government-Binding Approach (1986)Hardcover - 1986, 28 February 1986

Italian Syntax: A Government-Binding Approach (1986)
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Part of Series
Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Print Length
470 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
28 Feb 1986
ISBN-10
9027720142
ISBN-13
9789027720146

Description

In the course of our everyday lives, we generally take our knowledge of language for granted. Occasionally, we may become aware of its great practical importance, but we rarely pay any attention to the formal properties that language has. Yet these properties are remarkably complex. So complex that the question immediately arises as to how we could know so much. The facts that will be considered in this book should serve well to illustrate this point. We will see for example that verbs like arrivare 'arrive' and others like telefonare 'telephone', which are superficially similar, actually differ in a large number of respects, some fairly well known, others not. Why should there be such differencces. we may ask. And why should it be that if a verb behaves like arrivare and unlike tetefonare in one respect. it will do so in all others consistently, and how could everyone know it? To take another case, Italian has two series of pronouns: stressed and unstressed. Thus, for example, alongside of reflexive se stesso 'himself which is the stressed form. one finds si which is unstressed but otherwise synonymous. Yet we will see that the differences between the two could not simply be stress versus lack of stress, as their behavior is radically different under a variety of syntactic conditions.

Product Details

Author:
L Burzio
Book Edition:
1986
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
28 February 1986
Dimensions:
24.03 x 16.41 x 3.23 cm
ISBN-10:
9027720142
ISBN-13:
9789027720146
Language:
English
Location:
Dordrecht
Pages:
470
Publisher:
Weight:
821 gm

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