From Latin to Romance: Morphosyntactic Typology and Change

by Adam Ledgeway

Book Overview

This book examines the grammatical changes that took place in the transition from Latin to the Romance languages. The emerging language underwent changes in three fundamental areas involving the noun phrase, verb phrase, and the sentence. The impact of the changes can be seen in the reduction of the Latin case system; the appearance of auxiliary verb structures to mark such categories tense, mood, and voice; and a shift towards greater rigidification...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019873669X
• ISBN13: 9780198736691
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"