Daniela Isac
List of John Benjamins publications for which Daniela Isac plays a role.
Articles
Chapter 3. Definite determiners in Romance: The role of modification Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics: Papers selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018, Alboiu, Gabriela and Ruth King (eds.), pp. 57–78
2022 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 | Chapter
Clause typing and Quebec French -tu Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 16: Selected papers from the 47th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Newark, Delaware, Vogel, Irene (ed.), pp. 155–170
2020 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 | Chapter
Decomposing force Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar: Essays on interfaces, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 87–116
2012 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 | Article
Depictives: Syntactic and interpretive asymmetries UG and External Systems: Language, brain and computation, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 3–26
2005 Article
Focus on Negative Concord 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. 119 ff.
2004 Article
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.
2004 Article
Mood and force features in the languages of the Balkans Balkan Syntax and Semantics, Mišeska Tomić, Olga (ed.), pp. 315–338
2004 Article
Identificational Focus vs Contrastive Focus: A Syntactic Distinction Romance 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
2003 Article
Restrictive relative clauses vs. restrictive Adjectives: An asymmetry within the class of modifiers Asymmetry in Grammar: Volume 1: Syntax and semantics, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 27–49
2003 Article