Analyticity and Syntheticity: A Diachronic Perspective with Special Reference to Romance Languages

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Walter de Gruyter, 06/02/2013 - 306 páginas
The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
 

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Chapter one History of the terms analytic and synthetic
3
in search of a universal
29
The usefulness of the terms analyticitysyntheticity in diachronic description
47
Part 1 The marking of personnumber From synthetic to analytic?
75
Part 2 Periphrastic cantare habeo habeo cantatum and je vais chanter
117
predicate negation in Romance
151
Chapter seven On drift cyclicity reconstruction and the motives for changes in the analyticsynthetic spectrum
175
Conclusion
193
Notes
197
Bibliography
245
Subject Index
279
Author Index
287
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