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A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use
Selected papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19–22 April 2001
Edited by Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Luis López and Richard CameronUniversity of Illinois, Chicago
2003. xvi, 386 pp.
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Twenty-one articles from the 31st LSRL investigate cutting-edge issues and interfaces across phonology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, semantics, and syntax in multiple dialects of such Romance languages as Catalan, French, Creole French, and Spanish, both old and modern. Research in Romance phonology moves from the quantitative and synchronic to cover issues of diachrony and Optimality theory. Work within pragmatics and sociolinguistics also explores the synchronic/diachronic link while topicalizing such issues as change of non-pro-drop Swiss French toward pro-drop status, scalar implicatures, speech acts, word order, and simplification in contexts of language contact. Finally, debates in linguistic theory are resumed in the work on syntax and semantics within both a Minimalist perspective and an Optimality framework. How do Catalan and French children acquire AGR and TNS? Can Basque Spanish be compared to topic-oriented Chinese? If Spanish preverbal subjects occur in an A-position, can Spanish no longer be compared to Greek?
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Introduction and acknowledgment
Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Luis López and Richard Cameron
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Pronominal clitics in Picard revisited
Julie Auger
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Spanish /s/:: A different story from beginning (initial) to end (final)
Esther L. Brown and Rena Torres Cacoullos
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Consonant intrusion in heterosyllabic cosonant-liquid clusters in Old Spanish and Old French:: An Optimality theoretical account
Fernando Martínez-Gil
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39
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A constraint interaction theory of Italian raddoppiamento
Mario Saltarelli
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59
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Ground/Focus:: A perspective from French
Claire Beyssade, Jean-Marie Marandin and Annie Rialland
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The subject clitics of European Conversational French:: Morphologization, grammatical change, semantic change, and change in progress
Bonnie Fonseca-Greber and Linda R. Waugh
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A scalar propositional negative polarity item in Spanish
Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Scott A. Schwenter
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119
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A pragmatic analysis of Imperfect Conditionals
Michela Ippolito
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Indirect objects in ditransitive constructions in Brazilian Portuguese
H.M.M.-L. Salles and Marta P. Scherre
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Pragmatic variation in Spanish:: External request modifications in Peninsular and Uruguayan Spanish
Rosina Márquez Reiter
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Clitic simplification in a contact variety of Spanish:: Third person accusative pronouns in the Mexican-American community of Houston
N. Ariana Mrak
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The expression of topic in spoken Spanish:: An empirical study
Francisco Ocampo
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An adaptive approach to noun gender in New York contact Spanish
Ricardo Otheguy and Naomi Lapidus
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209
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Properties of the double object construction in Spanish
Tonia Bleam
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Spanish perception verbs and sequence of tenses:: Aktionsart effects
Alicia Cipria
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Defaults and competition in the acquisition of functional categories in Catalan and French
Lisa Davidson and Géraldine Légendre
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Constraints on the meanings of Bare Nouns
Viviane Déprez
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Null objects revisited
Jon A. Franco and Alazne Landa
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Auxiliary choice and pronominal verb constructions:: The case of the passé surcomposé
Kate Paesani
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The lexical preverbal subject in a Romance Null Subject Language:: Where are thou?
Margarita Suñer
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Intervention effects in the French wh-in-situ construction:: Syntax or interpretation?
María Luisa Zubizarreta
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Index
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“A recurrent theme in many of the papers in this volume is the reconsideration and reevaluation of longstanding phonological, morphological and syntactic phenomena within new theoretical frameworks. ”
Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville, USA, in Lingua 115 (2005)
“The volume would be of interest to any linguist concerned with the application of linguistic theory to Romance data. In addition, because of the high number of papers dealing with linguistic variation, the collection constitutes a valuable reference for those Romance linguists whose research belongs to the domain of dialectology.”
Natalya I. Stolova, Colgate University, in Language Vol. 82:3 (2006)
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