A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use
Selected papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19–22 April 2001
Editors
Twenty-one articles from the 31st LSRL investigate cutting-edge issues and interfaces across phonology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, semantics, and syntax in multiple dialects of such Romance languages as Catalan, French, Creole French, and Spanish, both old and modern. Research in Romance phonology moves from the quantitative and synchronic to cover issues of diachrony and Optimality theory. Work within pragmatics and sociolinguistics also explores the synchronic/diachronic link while topicalizing such issues as change of non-pro-drop Swiss French toward pro-drop status, scalar implicatures, speech acts, word order, and simplification in contexts of language contact. Finally, debates in linguistic theory are resumed in the work on syntax and semantics within both a Minimalist perspective and an Optimality framework. How do Catalan and French children acquire AGR and TNS? Can Basque Spanish be compared to topic-oriented Chinese? If Spanish preverbal subjects occur in an A-position, can Spanish no longer be compared to Greek?
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 238] 2003. xv, 384 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Introduction and acknowledgmentRafael Núñez-Cedeño, Luis López and Richard Cameron | p. vii
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Phonology and morphology
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Pronominal clitics in Picard revisitedJulie Auger | p. 3
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Spanish /s/:: A different story from beginning (initial) to end (final)Esther L. Brown and Rena Torres Cacoullos | p. 21
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Consonant intrusion in heterosyllabic cosonant-liquid clusters in Old Spanish and Old French:: An Optimality theoretical accountFernando Martínez-Gil | p. 39
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A constraint interaction theory of Italian raddoppiamentoMario Saltarelli | p. 59
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Pragmatics and sociolinguistics
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Ground/Focus:: A perspective from FrenchClaire Beyssade, Jean-Marie Marandin and Annie Rialland | p. 83
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The subject clitics of European Conversational French:: Morphologization, grammatical change, semantic change, and changein progressBonnie B. Fonseca-Greber and Linda R. Waugh | p. 99
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A scalar propositional negative polarity item in SpanishJavier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Scott A. Schwenter | p. 119
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A pragmatic analysis of Imperfect ConditionalsMichela Ippolito | p. 133
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Indirect objects in ditransitive constructions in Brazilian PortugueseHeloisa Maria M. Lima-Salles and Maria Marta Pereira Scherre | p. 151
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Pragmatic variation in Spanish:: External request modifications in Peninsular and Uruguayan SpanishRosina Márquez Reiter | p. 167
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Clitic simplification in a contact variety of Spanish:: Third person accusative pronouns in the Mexican-American community of HoustonN. Ariana Mrak | p. 181
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The expression of topic in spoken Spanish:: An empirical studyFrancisco Ocampo | p. 195
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An adaptive approach to noun gender in New York contact SpanishRicardo Otheguy and Naomi Shin | p. 209
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Syntax
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Properties of the double object construction in SpanishTonia Bleam | p. 233
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Spanish perception verbs and sequence of tenses:: Aktionsart effectsAlicia Cipria | p. 253
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Defaults and competition in the acquisition of functional categories in Catalan and FrenchLisa Davidson and Géraldine Legendre | p. 273
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Constraints on the meanings of Bare NounsViviane Déprez | p. 291
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Null objects revisitedJon A. Franco and Alazne Landa | p. 311
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Auxiliary choice and pronominal verb constructions:: The case of the passé surcomposéKate Paesani | p. 327
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The lexical preverbal subject in a Romance Null Subject Language:: Where are thou?Margarita Suñer | p. 341
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Intervention effects in the French wh-in-situ construction:: Syntax or interpretation?María Luisa Zubizarreta | p. 359
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Index
“A recurrent theme in many of the papers in this volume is the reconsideration and reevaluation of longstanding phonological, morphological and syntactic phenomena within new theoretical frameworks.”
Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville, USA, in Lingua 115 (2005)
“The volume would be of interest to any linguist concerned with the application of linguistic theory to Romance data. In addition, because of the high number of papers dealing with linguistic variation, the collection constitutes a valuable reference for those Romance linguists whose research belongs to the domain of dialectology.”
Natalya I. Stolova, Colgate University, in Language Vol. 82:3 (2006)
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Seo, Misun
2011. Syllable Contact. In The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, ► pp. 1 ff.
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2004. Publications Received. Journal of Sociolinguistics 8:2 ► pp. 319 ff.
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General