Deconstructing Language Structure and Meaning: Studies on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology

Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru · Alina Tigău · Mihaela Zamfirescu

Jul 2021 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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About this ebook

This volume brings together a number of researchers working on generative syntax and semantics, language acquisition and phonology to explore various theoretical frameworks, ranging from generative grammar and formal semantics to more descriptive approaches. The contributions gathered here investigate various aspects in the syntax, semantics, phonology and acquisition of Romanian in comparison with other (mainly Romance) languages. The book will be of interest to linguists who are keen on keeping up with the latest advances in the field of Romance studies, as well as those whose research bears on languages such as Hungarian, German, and Maltese, among others.

About the author

Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru is a Professor at the English Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Bucharest, working on the syntax of the English complex sentence and the syntax and semantics of the noun phrase in Germanic and Romance languages. She earned her PhD from the same institution in 2007, with a thesis on the syntax of classifier-noun constructions and bare nouns in English and Romance languages. Her subsequent research focused on the syntax of partitivity, cardinal-noun constructions, binominal qualitative constructions, and (non)canonical representation of coordination structures.

Alina Tigău is an Associate Professor at the English Department of the University of Bucharest, working on the syntax and semantics of the Romanian verb phrase from a comparative perspective with Romance and Germanic languages. She earned her PhD from the same institution in 2010, with a thesis devoted to the syntax and semantics of the direct object in Romance and Germanic languages. Since 2016, she has worked as a Humboldt Fellow and as a member of the research project Internal Arguments in Romance at the University of Cologne, Germany, investigating ditransitive constructions in Romance languages.

Mihaela Zamfirescu is an Associate Professor at the English Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Bucharest, working on negation and polarity in Germanic and Romance languages. She earned her PhD in 2012, with a thesis devoted to the syntax and semantics of positive polarity items in English and Romanian. Her subsequent research focused on translation studies and interpreting.

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