A Comparative Syntax of the Dialects of Southern Italy: A Minimalist Approach / Edition 1

by Adam Ledgeway

Overview

The book investigates the little studied syntax of the dialects of southern Italy. In addition to providing a descriptive account of a wide range of syntactic phenomena , the discussion shows how the model of language embodied in Chomsky's (1995) Minimalist Program can be profitably extended to the study of the syntax of southern Italian dialects, focusing on such topics as Case-marking and finite, infinitival and participial complementation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631221661
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/29/2008
Series:	Publications of the Philological Society , #33
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Adam Ledgeway is Lecturer in the Department of Italian at the University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

1. Case Marking.

2. Finite and Infinitival Complementation: Null Subjects and Control.

3. The Personal Infinitive.

4. Auxiliary Infinitival Constructions.

5. Auxiliary Selection.

6. Want-passives.