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Published 2007.
This volume is a collection of 12 papers which originated from a research project on 'Europe and the Mediterranean from a linguistic point of view: history
...
Published 2007.
This volume is a collection of 12 papers which originated from a research project on 'Europe and the Mediterranean from a linguistic point of view: history
and prospects'. The papers deal with specific morphosyntactic aspects of language structure and evolution. The comparative perspective is adopted both from
a synchronic (typological) and a diachronic (historical) angle, focusing in particular on possible contact phenomena.
Therefore, methodological key words of this book are areal typology and linguistic area. The issues addressed cover such diverse aspects of language
structure and change as verb morphology, relative clause formation, Noun Phrase determination, demonstrative systems, possessive markers in Noun Phrases,
conjunctive, disjunctive and adversative constructions, non-canonical object marking, impersonal constructions, reduplication and early translations of the
Gospels. These topics are discussed particularly in relation to Romance, Germanic, Celtic and Semitic languages, both modern and ancient. This book will
interest researchers in typological, historical, functional and general linguistics.
