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Author:   Christina Tortora (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, College of Staten Island and CUNY Graduate Center)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.850kg
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9780199945627

ISBN 10:   0199945624
Pages:   422
Publication Date:   05 February 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"List of Abbreviations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The syntax and semantics of the weak locative 0. Introduction 1. Unaccusative verb classes 2. The syntactic manifestation of the GOAL / non-GOAL distinction in Borgomanerese 3. SOURCE-entailing verbs and the existential 4. The weak locative goal argument in Italian 5. English non-existential weak there as a weak locative goal argument Chapter 3: Object clitics in simple tense, complex predicate, and imperative clauses 0. Introduction 1. Generalized enclisis in the simple tenses 2. Enclisis with past participles in the compound tenses 3. Variation in placement: the nature of the clitic itself 4. Restructuring verbs 5. Enclisis in causative constructions 6. Enclisis with imperatives 7. Clitic combinations Chapter 4: Object clitics and locative prepositions 0. Introduction 1. Argument locatives as another type of ""adverbial host"" 2. The preposition's complement 3. Remaining issues Chapter 5: Subject Clitics 0. Introduction 1. Subject clitic pronouns in Northern Italian dialects 2. Subject clitics in Borgomanerese: an overview 3. The subject clitic i 4. Third person singular l and la 5. The second person singular subject clitics tal and t 6. The subject clitic a 7. The subject clitic ngh 8. The impersonal clitic s Chapter 6: Interrogatives 0. Introduction 1. Interrogative pronouns 2. The missing preposition 3. The difference between cus and que 4. Doubly-filled comp and cleft questions Appendix: Verb Conjugations References"

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With its richness of data, insights, reflections, and novel analyses, this book is comparative syntactic investigation at its best. * Sandra Paoli, Modern Language Review *

With its richness of data, insights, reflections, and novel analyses, this book is comparative syntactic investigation at its best. Sandra Paoli, Modern Language Review

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Christina Tortora is Professor of Linguistics at the City University of New York (College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center). She has twice been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (2001 and 2011-12) and is the editor of The Syntax of Italian Dialects (OUP 2003). She has both a National Science Foundation Grant and a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, to support her research on Appalachian English syntax.

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