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Unraveling the Complexity of Se

Unraveling the Complexity of Se

Armstrong, Grant
MacDonald, Jonathan E.

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Book 99

PhilosophyForeign Language GeneralGrammar & Style

ISBN10: 3030570037
ISBN13: 9783030570033
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: May 23 2021
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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