Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006

Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Amsterdam, 7–9 December 2006

Editors

Danièle Torck

| VU University Amsterdam

W. Leo Wetzels

| VU University Amsterdam & Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle/LPP, CNRS

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The annual conference series ‘Going Romance’ has developed into a major European discussion forum where ideas about language and linguistics and about Romance languages in particular are put in an interactive perspective, giving room to both universality and Romance-internal variation. The current volume contains a selection of the papers that were presented at the 20th Going Romance conference, held at the VU University in Amsterdam in December 2006. The papers in the volume deal with current issues in phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, and range across a variety of Romance languages.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 303] 2009. viii, 262 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.303

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Unpronounced MUCH and the distribution of degree expressions in Spanish Antonia Androutsopoulou and Manuel Español-Echeverria	1–16
The status of the (supposed) expletive in Brazilian Portuguese existential clauses Juanito Ornelas de Avelar	17–32
On the linearization of adjectives in Romanian Alexandra Cornilescu	33–52
Prepositionless genitive and N+N compounding in (Old) French and Italian Denis Delfitto and Paola Paradisi	53–72
Vowel elision in spoken Italian Luigia Garrapa	73–88
Acoustic correlates of phonological microvariations: The case of unsuspected micro-parametric metaphonetic processes in a small area of Southern Salento (Apulia) Mirko Grimaldi	89–110
Romance lenition: Towards a formal account of a contrast maintaining phonetically motivated sound change Haike Jacobs and Robbie van Gerwen	111–126
Main stress in Italian nonce nouns Martin Krämer	127–142
Negative concord as feature sharing Masakazu Kuno	143–158
Appositive sentences and the structure(s) of coordination Gabriela Matos	159–174
Cleaving the interactions between sluicing and P-stranding Cilene Rodrigues, Andrew Nevins and Luis Vicente	175–198
Another look at wh-questions in Romance: The case of Mendrisiottoand its consequences for the analysis of French wh-in situ and embedded interrogatives Cecilia Poletto and Jean-Yves Pollock	199–258
Index of subjects and terms	259–262

“[...] a good deal of thought-provoking material for the specialist.”

Rodney Sampson, University of Bristol, in French Studies, Vol. 65(2), 2011

Subjects

Linguistics

Romance linguistics

Syntax

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF/2ACD – Linguistics/Dutch

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

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2008042423