Formal Approaches to Romance Morphosyntax

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Formal Approaches to Romance Morphosyntax is written by Marc-Olivier Hinzelin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110719282 (ISBN 10) and 9783110719284 (ISBN 13).

Recent years have witnessed a (re)surfacing of interest on the interaction of morphology and syntax. For many grammatical phenomena, it is not easy to draw a dividing line between syntactic and morphological structure. This has led to the assumption that syntax is the module responsible not only for deriving syntactically complex phrases but also for deriving morphologically complex items, both in inflection and word formation. There are however also good reasons to think that syntax is not involved in all morphological processes and that there are consistent areas of morphology that are independent from syntactic processes. This book presents a collection of papers where phenomena from Romance languages and varieties are analysed under contrasting views on how morphology and syntax interact. All the contributions follow the aim to investigate what the analysed phenomena tell us about their structural make‐up and the grammatical processes involved.