Overview
- Takes a unique syntactic perspective on the division of Romance se/si constructions that is based on recent theoretical approaches to linguistic change and clitics
- Contains a range of different languages and dialects
- Popular and under-studied constructions are analyzed in theoretical detail and framed within larger issues that Romance se/si bears on
Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 99)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Diachronic Perspectives
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Front Matter
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Voice/Little v and Below
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Front Matter
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A Unifying Perspective
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About this book
This book makes a novel contribution to our understanding of Romance SE constructions by combining both diachronic and synchronic theoretical perspectives along with a range of empirical data from different languages and dialects.
The collection, divided into four sections, proposes that SE constructions may be divided into one class that is the result of grammaticalization of a reflexive pronoun up the syntactic tree, from Voice and above, and another class that has resulted from the reanalysis of reflexive and anticausative morphemes as an argument expletive or verbal morpheme generated in positions from Voice and below. The contributions, while varied in both empirical content and theoretical approach, all serve to highlight different aspects of the overarching idea that SE constructions have evolved from these two distinct grammaticalization paths.
The book appeals to researchers and academics in the field and closes with a unified approach to various SE constructions that makes important use of its status as a verbal morpheme. In addition to aligning a novel string of empirical contributions under a new theoretical umbrella, a clear research direction emerges from this volume based on the morphosyntactic nature of SE itself: Is it a clitic, an agreement morpheme, or a verbal morpheme?
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jonathan E. MacDonald is Associate Professor of Linguistics and of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His general research area lies in the domain of theoretical syntax, with a specific focus on Romance SE constructions, and inner aspect. His work has appeared in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry, Syntax, Journal of Linguistics, and Probus, as well as numerous contributions in volumes edited by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, John Benjamins, among others.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Unraveling the complexity of SE
Editors: Grant Armstrong, Jonathan E. MacDonald
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57004-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57003-3Published: 23 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57006-4Published: 24 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-57004-0Published: 22 May 2021
Series ISSN: 0924-4670
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 348
Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Language, Syntax, Romance Languages, Morphology, Linguistics, general