nam a22 c 4500 la.291/996031170 nljbp 260302064122.8 cr ||||||||||| 260227s2026 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2026003231 9789027243997 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp CFK bicssc LAN009020 bisacsh Null or Nothing Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology Edited by Peter Herbeck and Natascha Pomino Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026 ©2026 389 pages ix, 379 pp. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 0166-0829 291 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Preface -- Zero morphemes in the morphophonology of Catalan / Eulàlia Bonet -- Spanish VN compounds and the source of valued gender and number features / Antonio Fábregas -- Exocentric compounding and implicit heads / Vitor Augusto Nóbrega -- V-N compounds in French / Petra Sleeman -- Zero affixes in verbal derivation / Irene Fally and Eva-Maria Remberger -- Getting rid of zeroes / Pamela Goryczka and Anne-Li Demonie -- The simple and the periphrastic past in spoken (Valencian) Catalan as evidence against zero in inflectional morphology / Peter Herbeck and Natascha Pomino -- Indefinite object drop in Spanish / Carlos Martínez-García -- Non-coordinated null objects in Medieval French / Prudence de Pontbriand -- Comparing null subjects and null objects / Nelli Kerezova -- The inverse vocative in Sicilian regional Italian / Gabriele Ganau and Jan Casalicchio -- Spatial expressions with implicit (and overt) arguments / Steffen Heidinger and Michelle Troberg Zero elements are used by several theories in morphology and syntax as analytical tool, but the question of whether phonologically empty elements should be structurally present or not has been a controversial issue from the very beginning. In addition to analyses that work with zero, there are also a whole series of works that explicitly reject a description with zero or allow them only under restricted circumstances. This volume aims at getting a more complete picture of zero elements as a theoretic construct, its empirical necessity and its nature in different components of grammar by focusing on Romance languages. The volume presents multi-facetted viewpoints and methodologies, such as formal theoretic and data-based ones, addressing researchers, advanced students and everyone interested in linguistics. Furthermore, this volume deals with various Romance languages and varieties, such as Catalan, (Old and Modern) French, Italian and Sicilian, (Brazilian and European) Portuguese, and Spanish. Provided by publisher. Generative linguistics Morphology Romance linguistics Syntax Theoretical linguistics Herbeck, Peter editor Pomino, Natascha editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 9789027233899 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/la.291 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027243997