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Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages

Palgrave Macmillan

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  1. Ian Mackenzie

    1. School of Modern Languages, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition (PSPLC)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  3. Expletive Inversion

    • Ian Mackenzie
    Pages 17-38

  4. Partitive Cliticization

    • Ian Mackenzie
    Pages 39-69

  5. Bare Subjects

    • Ian Mackenzie
    Pages 70-102

  6. Perfect Auxiliary Selection

    • Ian Mackenzie
    Pages 103-161

  7. Past Participle Agreement

    • Ian Mackenzie
    Pages 162-171

  8. Participial Absolutes

    • Ian Mackenzie
    Pages 172-181

  9. Conclusion

    • Ian Mackenzie
    Pages 182-186

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 187-230
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About this book

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.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Modern Languages, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Ian Mackenzie

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About the author

IAN E. MACKENZIE is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. His specialist areas are Spanish syntax and semantics, philosophy of language and Spanish in Latin America. He is the author of four books including Spanish: an Essential Grammar (with Peter T. Bradley),
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages

  • Authors: Ian Mackenzie

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230627550

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4918-9Published: 21 March 2006

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52550-8Published: 01 January 2006

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62755-0Published: 21 March 2006

  • Series ISSN: 2946-2576

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-2584

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 230

  • Topics: Grammar, Syntax

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