Features and Interfaces in Romance

Essays in honor of Heles Contreras

Editors

Julia Herschensohn | University of Washington

Enrique Mallén | Texas A&M University

Karen Zagona | University of Washington

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This volume brings together new research on theoretical Romance Linguistics; its intended audience is scholars in the field of formal grammar, especially those specializing in Romance languages. It represents the latest work on the structure of Romance languages, with relevant comparisons to other languages such as English and Basque. As the volume's title indicates, two related themes recur in these studies: the role of grammatical features in sub-modules of the grammar, and the interaction of sub-modules with each other and with external systems at the “interfaces”. The contributions to this volume, all framed within current theoretical models, explore these and related problems in the analysis of Romance. The volume contains studies on morphology, phonology, syntax and semantics, and includes language and subject indices.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 222] 2001. xiv, 302 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.222

Table of Contents

Preface | p. ix

Seemingly Ergative and Ergatively Seeming

Xabier Artiagoitia | p. 1

On the Weight of Light Predicates

Ignacio Bosque | p. 23

On the Interpretation of Focus Features

José Camacho | p. 39

Dequeísmo in Spanish and the Structure and Features of CP

Violeta Demonte and Olga Fernández-Soriano | p. 49

Evaluative Suffixation in Spanish and the Syntax of Derivational Processes

Luis Eguren | p. 71

The Lower Operator Position with Parasitic Gaps

Joseph Edmonds | p. 85

NP Movement and Adjective Position in the DP Phases

Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Enrique Mallén | p. 107

Reflections on A Phonological Grammar of Spanish

James Harris | p. 133

The Long Fall: An intonational melody of Argentinian Spanish

Ellen M. Kaisse | p. 147

On the Position of Preposed PPs in English and Spanish

Paula Kempchinsky | p. 161

The Morphologization and Grammaticalization of French Liaison

Jurgen Klausenburger | p. 175

Determining the Acquisition of Determiners: On the innateness of functional categories

Conxita Lleó | p. 189

Sonority as a Primitive Phonological Feature: Evidence from Spanish complex onset phonotactics

Fernando Martínez-Gil | p. 203

Weak Subject Pronouns in Caribbean Spanish and XP Pied-Piping

Francisco Ordóñez and Antxon Olarrea | p. 223

The Realization of Number in Italian and Spanish

Mario Saltarelli | p. 239

Discourse Topic Constraints on Left Dislocated Subjects and CLLD Structures

Liliana Sánchez | p. 255

The Puzzle of Restrictive Relative Clauses with Conjoined DP Antecedents

Margarita Suñer | p. 267

Definite Determiners in French and Spanish: Features and extraction

Christine Tellier | p. 279

Subject Index | p. 293

Name Index | p. 297

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