This volume provides a detailed overview of compounding in Italian, from the earliest stages until today. Based on an analysis of data from different corpora, it describes the …
The volume studies the mechanisms of diachronic change in sentence structure between classical Latin and early Romance languages. For this purpose it draws on the theoretical …
Verb-particle constructions are not only present in Germanic languages, but they are also found in Romance ones, particularly in some scarcely regulated varieties, such as old …