Mictovariations In Syntactic Doubling (syntax And Semantics)
by Barbiers /
2008 / English / PDF
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Syntactic doubling is the phenomenon in which a constituent, i.e.,
a morphosyntactic feature, morpheme, word or phrase, is expressed
two or more times within a clause. Since such duplicates are often
redundant in that they do not contribute to semantic
interpretation, the question arises as to why they are possible or
necessary. This theoretical question becomes even more urgent in
view of the fact that closely related language varieties such as
the dialects of one dialect family often differ with respect to the
possibility of doubling. This book puts together seventeen papers
on microvariation in syntactic doubling that deal with such
theoretical issues. They provide a rich overview of the syntactic
doubling phenomena attested so far and of the theoretical analyses
that are currently available.The syntactic doubling phenomena
discussed include, among others, subject pronoun doubling, WH
pronoun doubling, possessive pronoun doubling, clitic doubling,
expletive subjects, tense, mood and aspect doubling, auxiliary
doubling, preposition doubling and negation doubling. Language
varieties discussed in this book include Afrikaans, Alemannic,
Bavarian, Tyrolean German, dialects of Dutch, dialects of Swedish,
Norwegian, Danish and Faroese, colloquial Icelandic, colloquial
Finnish, colloquial European and Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan,
Argentinian Spanish, dialects of Italian, Rumanian, Albanian,
Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Pontic, Macedonian and Modern Greek.
Syntactic doubling is the phenomenon in which a constituent, i.e.,
a morphosyntactic feature, morpheme, word or phrase, is expressed
two or more times within a clause. Since such duplicates are often
redundant in that they do not contribute to semantic
interpretation, the question arises as to why they are possible or
necessary. This theoretical question becomes even more urgent in
view of the fact that closely related language varieties such as
the dialects of one dialect family often differ with respect to the
possibility of doubling. This book puts together seventeen papers
on microvariation in syntactic doubling that deal with such
theoretical issues. They provide a rich overview of the syntactic
doubling phenomena attested so far and of the theoretical analyses
that are currently available.The syntactic doubling phenomena
discussed include, among others, subject pronoun doubling, WH
pronoun doubling, possessive pronoun doubling, clitic doubling,
expletive subjects, tense, mood and aspect doubling, auxiliary
doubling, preposition doubling and negation doubling. Language
varieties discussed in this book include Afrikaans, Alemannic,
Bavarian, Tyrolean German, dialects of Dutch, dialects of Swedish,
Norwegian, Danish and Faroese, colloquial Icelandic, colloquial
Finnish, colloquial European and Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan,
Argentinian Spanish, dialects of Italian, Rumanian, Albanian,
Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Pontic, Macedonian and Modern Greek.
