Year: 2009
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This volume is a collection of papers given at the workshop "Null-subjects, expletives, and locatives in Romance" at the University of Konstanz in March 2008. This workshop was a joint conference organised by the projects A-19 (Evolution and Variation of Expletive and Neuter Pronouns in Romance Languages / Georg Kaiser) and A-27 (Romance Auxiliary Verbs: Status Development Variation / Eva-Maria Remberger) within the SFB 471 Variation and Development in the Lexicon , funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The aim of the workshop was to bring together different views on the interpretation of null subjects, expletives and locatives in order to explore the syntactic, semantic and morphological correlations of these pronouns in Romance. The papers published here analyse empty and phonologically realised elements that show the typical behaviour and characteristics of expletives in all Romance languages, i.e. Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, Sardinian and Raeto-Romance, and frequently also in their regional or diachronic varieties.
Source: KOPS (University of Konstanz)
Authors: Georg Kaiser, Eva‐Maria Remberger
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1557802247