[PDF][PDF] Romance prepositional genitives: Multiple orders and structural asymmetry

A Androutsopoulou… - Rivista di Grammatica …, 2003 - researchgate.net
In this paper we examine the syntactic properties of prepositional genitives in Romance
languages. Following the proposals in Kayne (1994), we argue that the term of the …

[PDF][PDF] Prepositional genitives in Romance and the issue of parallel development

C Gianollo - Parameter theory and linguistic change, 2012 - academia.edu
The fact that the Romance languages, since their earliest attestations, appear to be, from the
point of view of a syntactic typology, much closer to one another than to their documented …

Romance genitives: Agreement, definiteness, and phases

A Massaro - Transactions of the Philological Society, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, which discusses data from Gargano Apulian Italo‐Romance, I propose that
prepositional and non‐prepositional genitives are fundamentally two different types of …

Towards a diachronic theory of genitive assignment in Romance

D Delfitto, P Paradisi - Historical syntax and linguistic theory, 2009 - iris.univr.it
This contribution deals with some cases of prepositionless genitive in Romance and with
their import for a general theory of Genitive assignment. Romance prepositionless genitives …

On the history of Romanian genitives: the prenominal genitive

A Cornilescu, A Nicolae - Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011 - ceeol.com
In this paper we focus on the behaviour of prenominal genitives in Old Romanian in contrast
with Modern Romanian. In the old language, the prenominal genitive is more widely used …

Some initial remarks on non-prepositional genitives in the Apulian variety of San Marco in Lamis

A Massaro - Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2019 - torrossa.com
This work aims at an initial description of prepositionless genitives in the Romance variety of
San Marco in Lamis, spoken in the Southern Italian region of Apulia. The construction will be …

What's hidden below definiteness and genitive: on indefinite partitive articles in Romance

F Pinzin - Linguistics, 2024 - degruyter.com
Abstract In French, Italian, and other Romance languages indefinite nominal phrases can be
introduced by what appears to be the conflation of a genitive preposition and a definite …

Adjective-Noun combinations in Romance and Greek of Southern Italy: Polydefiniteness revisited

C Guardiano, M Stavrou - Journal of Greek linguistics, 2019 - brill.com
This paper investigates aspects of adjectival modification in Romance and Greek of
Southern Italy. In Italiot Greek, prenominal adjectives obey restrictions that do not exist in …

A new perspective on the Luxembourgish genitive

C Döhmer - Germanic genitives, 2018 - torrossa.com
This paper deals with genitive constructions in the Luxembourgish language. It is often
assumed that the Luxembourgish genitive has only survived in idioms and archaic structures …

[图书][B] The genitive

A Carlier, JC Verstraete - 2013 - books.google.com
This volume, the fifth in the series Case and Grammatical Relations across Languages, is
devoted to genitive constructions in a range of Indo-European languages (Russian, French …