TY - BOOK AU - Hill,Virginia TI - Formal Approaches to DPs in Old Romanian T2 - Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics Series SN - 9789004292550 AV - PC713 .F67 2015 U1 - 459/.5 PY - 2015/// CY - Boston PB - BRILL KW - Romanian language-Syntax KW - Romanian language-To 1500 KW - Romanian language-History KW - Discourse analysis-History KW - Historical linguistics KW - Pragmatics-History KW - Romania-History-To 1711 KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 The Internal Structure of the DP -- The Parameter of Definiteness in Romanian: Diachronic and Synchronic Evidence -- Polydefinite DPs in Old Romanian -- Classified Proper Names in Old Romanian: Person and Definiteness -- Agreeing and Non-agreeing Genitives in Old Romanian and the History of Romanian Genitive Constructions -- Differential Οbject Μarking in the First Original Romanian Texts -- Two DP Configurations for Supine-Based Nouns -- Part 2 The DP and the Clause -- Object Pronouns in the Evolution of Romanian: A Biolinguistic Perspective -- DPs in Adjectival Small Clauses in Romanian: A Diachronic Perspective -- Restrictive and Appositive Relatives -- Index N2 - This volume offers the first collection of papers on this topic published in English. The analyses adopt the conceptual tools of generative grammar to explain the syntactic peculiarities of Old Romanian nouns, synchronically and diachronically UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=2036943 ER -