Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages (Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Languages and Cognition)

By Ian MacKenzie and Ian MacKenzie

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349525502
• ISBN13: 9781349525508
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"