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2018
This chapter provides a detailed account of the word order properties of Old Sicilian and Old Venetian. It shows that the two Old Italo-Romance varieties have much in common, namely a preverbal field not specialized for subjects, a dominant V2 order, two types of V2-related inversion, and matrix/embedded asymmetries.
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This chapter provides a detailed account of the word order properties of Old Sicilian and Old Venetian. It shows that the two Old Italo-Romance varieties have much in common, namely a preverbal field not specialized for subjects, a dominant V2 order, two types of V2-related inversion, and matrix/embedded asymmetries.
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2018
This chapter provides a detailed account of the word order properties of Old French and Old Occitan. It shows that Old French is a descriptively stricter V2 system than Old Occitan but that both are V2 grammars, with a prefield nonspecialized for subjects, a dominant V2 order, Germanic inversion, and matrix/embedded asymmetries.
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This chapter provides a detailed account of the word order properties of Old French and Old Occitan. It shows that Old French is a descriptively stricter V2 system than Old Occitan but that both are V2 grammars, with a prefield nonspecialized for subjects, a dominant V2 order, Germanic inversion, and matrix/embedded asymmetries.
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2020
Abstract In 1803 two new translations of Amadis were published: from French, by W. S. Rose, and from Spanish, by Robert Southey. It was through Southey’s editions of Amadis and Palmerin (1807), another Spanish romance, that Keats, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, and Hazlitt gained their knowledge of the genre.
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Abstract In 1803 two new translations of Amadis were published: from French, by W. S. Rose, and from Spanish, by Robert Southey. It was through Southey’s editions of Amadis and Palmerin (1807), another Spanish romance, that Keats, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, and Hazlitt gained their knowledge of the genre.
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Textual Entropy in Romance Studies (with a Focus on Old French Arthurian Prose Romances)
Medioevo romanzo : 2, 2016, 2016The usage of ‘entropy’ in philological studies dates back to d’A.S. Avalle and is part of a group of concepts borrowed from nineteenth-century physics in the framework of the methodological renewal promoted by Italian neo-Lachmannism. Entropy helps describe (and individuate, to a certain extent) phenomena of textual innovation that cannot be classified
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Interpreting reduplicated numerals in Old Ibero-Romance
2022Abstract Old Ibero-Romance reduplicated numerals in transfer and possession constructions force a distributive reading at the sentential level (OSp. los pecheros deben tres tres meajas “the taxpayers owe three meajas each”). I argue that the distributive construction is best accounted for at the clausal level by an applicative structure (Pylkkänen 2008)
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Spenser and Two Old French Grail Romances
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1913So far as the writer has been able to discover, attention has not been called to the probability that Spenser drew material directly from two French romances of the Grail-Perceval cycle for the episodes of the first two cantos of Book VI of the Faerie Queene.
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Accusative Alternation in Old and Modern Romance
2005Abstract This chapter investigates the evolution of the argument structure of (psychological) transfer verbs from Latin to Romance. It proposes that the original Latin structure — a construction labelled as accusative alternation in parallelism with the locative alternation or the dative alternation — consists of a small clause selected ...
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Determinerless noun phrases in Old Romance passives
2007In this paper we take the existence of Bare Noun Phrases acting as subjects or displaced complements as evidence for the licensing properties of Functional Categories other that Determiner Phrase in earlier stages of Romance Languages such as Spanish and Catalan.
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Two Old French Gauvain Romances
The Modern Language Journal, 1974Norris J. Lacy +2 more
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Inversion as a residual old Romance V2 grammar
2019This chapter focuses on ‘inversion’ in the verbal domain (i.e. verb–auxiliary and verb–pronominal clitic linearizations) and shows that old Romanian inversion represents the residual instantiation of an old Romance V2 grammar by means of a word order pattern widespread in the Balkan languages – the so-called ‘Long Head Movement’ pattern.
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