Romance Linguistics 2010

Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Seattle, Washington, March 2010

Editor

Julia Herschensohn

| University of Washington

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This volume contains a selection of nineteen peer-reviewed papers from the 40th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Washington in March 2010. In addition to overviews of Romance linguistics by the editor and by Jurgen Klausenburger in the keynote article, contributions cover a variety of linguistic theoretical topics and a range of Romance languages, including Old and Modern French, Italian, Romanian as well as several dialects of Spanish and Portuguese. A number of papers deal with the morphophonology of Peninsular Spanish languages, agreement anomalies, generic interpretation, and the syntax/semantics of determiners, particularly of Romanian. Both the topics and the languages discussed in this volume are tied together by a number of leitmotifs, and several articles present phenomena not previously considered. The volume makes significant contributions both to the documentation of Romance languages and to linguistic theory, and will be of interest to Romance and general linguistics scholars.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 318] 2011. xvii, 332 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.318

Table of Contents

Foreword and acknowledgements	ix–x
Editor’s introduction	xi–xviii
Theory and practice in Romance linguistics today: The importance of the annual LSRL Jurgen Klausenburger	1–14
Part I. Morphophonology
On the origins of /ɨ/ in Romanian Margaret E.L. Renwick	15–32
An acoustic investigation of nasal place neutralization in Spanish: Default place assignment and phonetic underspecification Michael Ramsammy	33–48
An acoustic study of rhotics in onset clusters in La Rioja Christine Weissglass	49–62
Mid front vowel lowering before rhotics in Ibero-Romance Travis G. Bradley	63–78
Plural formation in Galician Sonia Colina	79–98
Part II. Syntax
On bare subject relative clauses in Old French Deborah Arteaga	99–116
Directed motion in Medieval French Michelle Troberg	117–136
An ergative analysis of French valency alternations Edit Doron and Marie Labelle	137–154
Peninsular Spanish pre-nominal possessives in ellipsis contexts: A Phase-based account Luis Sáez	155–176
On the nature of nominal features: Agreement mismatches in Spanish conjoined structures Violeta Demonte, Héctor Fernández-Alcalde and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez	177–190
On the nature of bare nouns in Afro-Bolivian Spanish Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Sandro Sessarego	191–204
Negative imperatives in Portuguese and other Romance languages Rerisson Cavalcante	205–220
Part III. Semantic interfaces
Another look at Italian generic sentences Alda Mari	221–238
The agreement of collective DPS in Romanian Blanca Croitor and Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin	239–256
A multidominance account for conjoined questions in Romanian Dafina Ratiu	257–270
The Romanian verbal cluster and the theory of head movement Ion Giurgea	271–286
New challenges in the area of semantic dependencies: The Romanian epistemic constraint Anamaria Fălăus	287–302
Polarity particles in English and Romanian Donka F. Farkas	303–328
Index	329–332

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Subjects

Linguistics

Romance linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF/2AD – Linguistics/Romance, Italic & Rhaeto-Romanic languages

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

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2011034776