Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages

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"