Daniela Isac

List of John Benjamins publications for which Daniela Isac plays a role.

Articles

The definite article in Eastern Romance (ER) is overtly expressed as a suffix on the noun. However, with objects of prepositions (Ps) the definite article can be null, unless the P object is modified, in which case the definite article must be overt. In order to account for this variation in the… read more
This paper focuses on the Quebec French particle -tu, which occurs in interrogatives, exclamatives and declaratives indicating surprise. We propose that -tu is the overt instantiation of a polarity (Pol) head that is neither negative nor positive and that -tu also carries an epistemic modality… read more
Isac, Daniela 2012 Decomposing forceTowards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar: Essays on interfaces, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 87–116 | Article
This paper proposes that the semantics of imperative clauses is not correlated with a unique morpho-syntactic (imperative) Force feature (as traditionally assumed), but can be derived from finer grained components, which are independently needed, such as a Modality feature and a 2nd Person feature.… read more
Isac, Daniela 2005 Depictives: Syntactic and interpretive asymmetriesUG and External Systems: Language, brain and computation, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 3–26 | Article
Isac, Daniela 2004 Focus on Negative ConcordRomance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002, Bok-Bennema, Reineke, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 119 ff. | Article
Isac, Daniela and Charles Reiss 2004 Romance and ‘Something Else’Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002, Bok-Bennema, Reineke, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 141 ff. | Article
Isac, Daniela and Edit Jakab 2004 Mood and force features in the languages of the BalkansBalkan Syntax and Semantics, Mišeska Tomić, Olga (ed.), pp. 315–338 | Article
Isac, Daniela 2003 Identificational Focus vs Contrastive Focus: A Syntactic DistinctionRomance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001: Selected papers from 'Going Romance', Amsterdam, 6–8 December 2001, Quer, Josep, Jan Schroten, Mauro Scorretti, Petra Sleeman and Els Verheugd-Daatzelaar (eds.), pp. 113–130 | Article