This book examines the grammatical changes that took place in the transition from Latin to
the Romance languages. The emerging language underwent changes in three fundamental …

This book makes accessible the major structural features of the dialects of Italy and
emphasises the importance of a detailed understanding of the dialects for issues in general …

Italian is a Romance language, spoken in Italy–including the Republic of San Marino and
the Vatican City–as well as in the Italophone canton Ticino and in the canton Grisons, in …

This paper focuses on basic valency orientation in Latin, based on the typology laid out by
Nichols, Peterson and Barnes (2004). The data analyzed shows that Latin does not feature a …

Pleonasm and hypercharacterisation Page 1 Pleonasm and hypercharacterisation CHRISTIAN
LEHMANN ∗ 1. INTRODUCTION Hypercharacterization1 (German Ubercharakterisierung) may …

Middle markers are characterized by a distribution halfway between grammar and the
lexicon: with some verbs, middle marking encodes valency change, while with others it …

Romance languages divide into three classes, as far as perfective auxiliation is concerned:
as well as languages showing a binary contrast (eg, French) and languages showing no …

Three parameters play a role in the spread of the accusative into the functional domains of
the nominative for non-object, core arguments: semantic (the inactive nature of the …

The paper discusses the phenomenon of Late Latin intransitivizations, where a
morphologically active form of a transitive verb is used with a middle-passive function …

Τhis book offers a new approach to the theory of change in argument structure and voice
morphology. It investigates the diachrony of transitivity, and especially the changes in …