Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics
Selected Papers from the 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Bloomington, Indiana, April 2003
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This collection of twenty articles, selected from the 33rd annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at Indiana University in 2003, presents current theoretical approaches to a variety of issues in Romance linguistics. Invited speakers Luigi Burzio and José Ignacio Hualde contribute papers on the paradigmatics and syntagmatics of Italian verbal inflection and comparative/diachronic Romance intonation, respectively. The other papers, whose authors include both well-known researchers and younger scholars, represent such areas as French syntax (both synchronic and diachronic), second language acquisition (Spanish & English), Spanish intonation, phonology, syntax, and semantics, Italian semantics, Romanian morphology and syntax, Catalan phonology and morphology, and Galician phonology (two papers). The volume is rounded out by three explicitly comparative studies, one on proto-Romance phonology, one on microvariation in Romance syntax, and a third addressing syntactic microvariation among varieties of French and French-based creoles. Frameworks represented include Optimality Theory, Minimalism, and Construction Grammar.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 258] 2004. viii, 404 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Case, Agreement, and Expletives: A parametric difference in Old French and Modern FrenchDeborah Arteaga and Julia Herschensohn | pp. 1–15
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Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Relations in Italian Verbal InflectionLuigi Burzio | pp. 17–44
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The Role of the L1 in the Overgeneralization of Causatives in L2 English and L2 SpanishMónica Cabrera and María Luisa Zubizarreta | pp. 45–64
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The Inchoative Interpretation of the ImperfectoAlicia Cipria | pp. 65–81
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Reinterpreting the CV Transition: Emergence of the glide as an allophone of the palatal lateralLaura Colantoni | pp. 83–102
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Intervocalic Velar Nasals in GalicianSonia Colina | pp. 103–120
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Null Objects in French and EnglishSarah Cummins and Yves Roberge | pp. 121–138
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Micro-Parametric Variation and Negative ConcordViviane Déprez and France Martineau | pp. 139–158
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Contrast and Addition in Romance: A case study in microvariationLuis Eguren and Cristina Sánchez López | pp. 159–176
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On the Structure of Syncretism in Romanian ConjugationRonald F. Feldstein | pp. 177–195
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Sluicing in Romanian: A typological studyFrederick Hoyt and Alexandra Teodorescu | pp. 197–215
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Romance Intonation From a Comparative and Diachronic Perspective: Possibilities and limitationsJosé Ignacio Hualde | pp. 217–237
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Romance SE as an Aspectual ElementPaula Kempchinsky | pp. 239–256
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Proto-Romance *[w] and the Velar PreteritesEric Lief | pp. 257–274
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The Phonological Role of Paradigms: The case of insular CatalanMaria-Rosa Lloret | pp. 275–297
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A Constraint-Based Analysis of Galician GeadaFernando Martínez-Gil | pp. 299–320
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Peak Placement in Two Regional Varieties of Peruvian Spanish IntonationErin O'Rourke | pp. 321–341
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On Intentional Causation in ItalianAntonella Vecchiato | pp. 343–360
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Inversion, Reconstruction, and the Structure of Relative ClausesLuis Vicente | pp. 361–379
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Infinitival Complement Constructions in Spanish: A Construction Grammar approachJiyoung Yoon | pp. 381–397
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Index of Terms and Concepts | pp. 399–404
“[...] very insightful articles on issues of the highest interest to phoneticians, morphologists, syntacticians, and cognitive linguists.”
Isabelle Lemée, State University of New York at Albany, on Linguist List, Vol. 16.1665
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
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