Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias
Edited by Guillermo Lorenzo
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 36] 2022. ix, 218 pp.
Guillermo Lorenzo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Guillermo Lorenzo plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2022 Chapter 4. Are Asturian clitics distinctly distinct? Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias, Lorenzo, Guillermo (ed.), pp. 73–92 | Chapter
This chapter is focused on an idiosyncratic feature of Asturian in the context of other neighboring Romance languages. In all these languages, the regular clitic forms for the third person dative and the third person accusative cannot cluster together; as a consequence, one or the other must be… read more
2022 Chapter 1. Northern soul: A brief guide to the linguistic diversity of Asturias Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias, Lorenzo, Guillermo (ed.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter
This introductory chapter provides some background to the rest of the book. It first outlines some major topics of the grammar of the languages of Asturias. After that, some prior approximations to these languages from a generative perspective are reviewed. Finally, the specific issues dealt… read more
2022 Chapter 5. ¿Qué che femos con el che? Some properties of the ethical dative ‘che’ in Asturian Galician Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias, Lorenzo, Guillermo (ed.), pp. 93–108 | Chapter
This chapter is devoted to the pervasive use in Asturian Galician of a clitic token formally identical to the second person singular dative, albeit with different conditions of use and subject to very different placement restrictions. We claim that such item incorporates a ‘clusivity’ feature as… read more
2021 Otto Jespersen, one more broken leg in the historical stool of generative linguistics Historiographia Linguistica 48:2/3, pp. 302–315 | Article
Over the years, Noam Chomsky has constructed a historiographic narrative according to which Generative Grammar is the outcome of a mix comprising the early awareness of creativity by Galileo, the Cartesians, and Humboldt, the formalization of recursive functions by computational theorists, and… read more