Syntactic Variation and Verb Second

A German dialect in Northern Italy
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-272-5584-6
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 201, 325 Seiten, + index, Gewicht: 750 g

Reihe: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

This monograph investigates the syntax of the finite verb in Mòcheno, a minority language spoken in a German speech island of Northern Italy. Basing her study on detailed new data collected during extensive fieldwork, and focusing on finite verb movement; on multiple access to the left periphery; on pro licensing and on the distribution of OV/VO word orders, the author refutes the traditional view that the syntactic variation found in Mòcheno is due to the presence of two competing grammars as a consequence of contact with Romance varieties and accounts for the peculiarities of Mòcheno syntax within a theory couched in the framework of Generative Grammar. This book contributes to our understanding of the verb-second phenomenon and sheds new light on the asymmetries between Old Romance and Germanic verb-second languages. A useful tool for all linguists working on both theoretical and comparative syntax and to anyone interested in language variation, dialectology and typology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cognola, Federica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Mòcheno and the V2 phenomenon
3. The syntax of subject pronouns
4. Satisfaction of EPP and realization of subjects
5. Mòcheno as a partial pro-drop language
6. Multiple access to CP and asymmetric pro-drop
7. Conclusions
References
Appendix
Index