Daniela Isac
List of John Benjamins publications for which Daniela Isac plays a role.
2022 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 | Chapter
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
2020 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 | Chapter
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
2012 Decomposing force Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar: Essays on interfaces, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 89–116 | 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
2005 Depictives: Syntactic and interpretive asymmetries UG and External Systems: Language, brain and computation, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 3–26 | Article
2004 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. 119–140 | Article
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. 141–162 | Article
2004 Mood and force features in the languages of the Balkans Balkan Syntax and Semantics, Mišeska Tomić, Olga (ed.), pp. 315–338 | Article
2003 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 | Article
2003 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 | Article