Semantic Issues in Romance Syntax

Editors

Esthela Treviño

| Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Itzapalapa

José Lema

| Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Itzapalapa

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All of the articles in this volume focus on the interaction of form and meaning. Most of them are developed under the principal thesis of the Minimalist Program. These works show that the theoretical linguistic trend is to discover semantic aspects which are assumed to have visible syntactic repercussions through morphosyntactic and morphosemantic features.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 173] 1999. viii, 309 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.173

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Infinitives vs. participles Manuela Ambar	1
Without expletive replacement? Carlo Cecchetto	21
Verbal structures and variation Anna Maria Di Sciullo	39
French degree quantifiers and the syntax of mass and count Jenny Doetjes	57
Neuter relatives and the degree operator Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach	69
On the interpretation of Spanish n-words Elena Herburger	89
What does zero syntax add to an analysis of French psych verbs? Julia Herschensohn	105
The pronoun ∼ determiner debate: Evidence from Sardinian and repercussions for French Michael Allan Jones	121
A minimalist approach to compositionality of aspects Sonia Maruenda and Margaret Salome	141
Configurational Attitudes Pierre Pica and Johan Rooryck	155
Information focus: Between core and periphery Manuela Pinto	179
Relativized impersonality: Deontic sentences in Catalan Gemma Rigau	193
Quaint agreement and the theory of spell-out Yves Roberge	231
Aktionsart and transitive phrases Montserrat Sanz	247
Determiner transparency: Evidence from Brazilian Portuguese Cristina Schmitt	263
The post-verbal subject position of Italian unaccusative verbs of inherently directed motion Christina Tortora	283
Index of Authors	299
Index of Terms & Concepts	303
Index of Languages & Language Families	308

Subjects

Linguistics

Romance linguistics

Generative linguistics

Semantics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 98055455