Noun + Verb Compounding in Western Romance
Noun + Verb Compounding in Western Romance

Author: Kathryn Klingebiel

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780520097292

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This study traces the development of the Noun + Verb compositional pattern, e.g., Latin manutenere, in four western Romance languages, providing listings of medieval and modern examples. The pattern has disappeared from literary French and Spanish, yet continues to show surprising vitality in Catalan, the dialects of Occitan, and even in non-standardized varieties of northern Gallo-Romance.

Proper Names versus Common Nouns
Proper Names versus Common Nouns

Author: Javier Caro Reina

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-11-07

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 3110672626

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Recent research has shown that proper names morphosyntactically differ from common nouns in many ways. However, little is known about the morphological and syntactic/distributional differences between proper names and common nouns in less known (Non)-Indo-European languages. This volume brings together contributions which explore morphosyntactic phenomena such as case marking, gender assignment rules, definiteness marking, and possessive constructions from a synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspective. The languages surveyed include Austronesian languages, Basque, English, German, Hebrew, and Romance languages. The volume contributes to a better understanding not only of the contrasts between proper names and common nouns, but also of formal contrasts between different proper name classes such as personal names, place names, and others.