Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages

Уuztranslations Verbs in Romance Languages (Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Languages and Cognition)
Author: Ian MacKenzie
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 2006-08-08
ISBN: 1403949182
Number of pages: 243
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The author questions the status quo in Romance linguistics regarding such matters as auxiliary selection, partitive cliticization, bare subjects, participle agreement, and more. For the past two decades the Ergative/Unaccusative syntactic approach has been accepted as the orthodox analytical paradigm. He here re-examines both the theoretical imperative and the empirical evidence for that approach, drawing on a large amount of new