Definiteness in Balkan Romance

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Daniela Isac (Associate Professor of Linguistics, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Concordia University)

Definiteness in Balkan Romance

Daniela Isac (Associate Professor of Linguistics, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Concordia University)

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Oxford University Press
28 February 2024

Historical & comparative linguistics; Grammar, syntax

Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

This book is a study of the micro-variation in the realization of definiteness across languages belonging to the Balkan Romance family: Romanian, Aromanian, Istro-Romanian, and Megleno-Romanian. The definite article is a suffix in all of these languages, but nominal constituents show considerable variation with respect to the overt realization of the definite article: in some instances, the definite article is spelled out only once, in other situations it is spelled out multiple times, and in still other cases it can be phonologically null. Daniela Isac offers a unified analysis of these options based on a post-syntactic spell-out rule that specifies the conditions under which the definite article can be pronounced on various heads within the nominal constituent. Micro-variation in the patterns displayed by specific languages in this family is accounted for exclusively by lexicon-related differences (the feature specification of lexical and functional items may vary across languages) and by differences related to externalization (syntactic relations such as Agree may have various morpho-phonological overt expressions across languages). Crucially, the computational system is assumed to be invariant, a result that is consistent with the generative understanding of the knowledge and acquisition of language.

By: Daniela Isac (Associate Professor of Linguistics Associate Professor of Linguistics Concordia University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 86
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 582g
ISBN: 9780198865704
ISBN 10: 0198865708
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 28 February 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: Introduction 2: Framework and theoretical assumptions 3: Empirical focus and proposal 4: Implementation of the proposal 5: Conclusions 6: Appendix References Index

Daniela Isac is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Concordia University, where she has been teaching since receiving her PhD in 2000 from the University of Bucharest. Her interests include syntactic theory, diachronic syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and the foundations of linguistics as cognitive science. She is the co-author, with Charles Reiss, of I-Language. An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science (OUP 2008; 2nd edition 2013) and author of The Morphosyntax of Imperatives (OUP 2015).

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Definiteness in Balkan Romance

Daniela Isac (Associate Professor of Linguistics, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Concordia University)

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