Functional Approaches to Spanish Syntax: Lexical Semantics, Discourse and Transitivity

The first usage-based approach of its kind, this volume contains twelve studies on key issues in Spanish syntax: word order, arguments, grammatical-relation marking, inalienable possession, ser and estar, adjective placement, small clauses and causatives. The studies are approached within a broad functionalist perspective. The studies strengthen the view that components of grammar intricately interact and that a usage-based approach to analyzing them offers new and insightful perspectives on some stubborn problems.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403994064
• ISBN13: 9781403994066
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"