Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11

Selected papers from the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), London, Ontario

Editors

Silvia Perpiñán

| University of Western Ontario

David Heap

| University of Western Ontario

Itziri Moreno-Villamar

| University of Western Ontario

Adriana Soto-Corominas

| University of Western Ontario

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This collection brings together current research on a range of phenomena in French, Spanish, Occitan and Italian, that will be of interest to scholars and students of Romance and general linguistics. The volume includes 12 peer-reviewed articles, first presented at the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), divided into three sections on syntax-semantics, morphosyntax, and bilingualism and language acquisition.

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 11] 2017. vi, 269 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.11

Table of Contents

Introduction Silvia Perpiñán, David Heap, Itziri Moreno-Villamar and Adriana Soto-Corominas	1–5
Part I. Syntax-semantics	7–97
Chapter 1. Embedding verbs and subjunctive mood: The emotive factor Léna Baunaz	9–31
Chapter 2. Towards a unified treatment of Spanish copulas María J. Arche, Antonio Fábregas and Rafael Marín	33–52
Chapter 3. How French sheds new light on scalar particles Isabelle Charnavel	53–75
Chapter 4. Pluralities of events: Semelfactives and a case of ‘single event’ nominalisation Marta Donazzan and Lucia M. Tovena	77–97
Part II. Morphosyntax	99–188
Chapter 5. Laísmo and “le-for-les”: To agree or not to agree Adolfo Ausín and Francisco José Fernández-Rubiera	101–125
Chapter 6. The morphological markedness of φ: Evidence from perfective auxiliaries in Southern Italian dialects Giuseppe Torcolacci	127–145
Chapter 7. Partial subject paradigms and feature geometry in Northern Occitan dialects Michèle Oliviéri, Jean-Pierre Lai and David Heap	147–167
Chapter 8. Automatic detection of syntactic patterns from texts with application to Spanish clitic doubling Bruno Estigarribia	169–188
Part III. Bilingualism and language acquisition	189–264
Chapter 9. Voice quality transfer in the production of Spanish heritage speakers and English L2 learners of Spanish Ji Young Kim	191–207
Chapter 10. Null subjects in the early acquisition of English by child heritage speakers of Spanish Jennifer R. Austin, Liliana Sánchez and Silvia Perez-Cortes	209–227
Chapter 11. Return to Frenchville: Tracing a near-merger from legacy data Barbara E. Bullock and Jenna Nichols	229–246
Chapter 12. The processing of intrasentential anaphoric subject pronouns in L2 Spanish Juan P. Comínguez, Nuria Sagarra, Aurora Bel and Estela García-Alcaraz	247–264
Index	265–269

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: 2017015072