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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001

Selected papers from 'Going Romance', Amsterdam, 6–8 December 2001

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Edited by Josep Quer, Jan Schroten, Mauro Scorretti, Petra Sleeman and Els Verheugd
University of Barcelona / Utrecht University / University of Amsterdam

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 245

2003. viii, 355 pp.
Publishing status: Available

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978 90 272 4757 5 / EUR 125.00
978 1 58811 445 7 / USD 188.00
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The volumes Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory published in the series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001 is the third such volume. It presents a selection of the papers that have been presented at the occasion of Going Romance 2001 (XV) — which was held at the University of Amsterdam on December 6-8, 2001. The three-day program included a workshop on Determiners. The volume contains articles on specifics of one or more Romance languages or varieties: the architecture of the Determiner Phrase and properties of determiners, the left periphery of the sentence and clause structure, null elements and their interpretation, clitics, and other interesting phenomena in the Romance languages.

Table of contents

Introduction
v
Spanish De -Clauses Are Not Always in the Right Mood
Luis Alonso-Ovalle
1–16
Mood and Focus
Claudia Borgonovo
17–30
Null vs Overt Spec, TP in European Portuguese
João Costa
31–47
Determiner Architecture and Phrasal Movement in French Lexifier Creoles
Viviane Déprez
49–74
On the Relation between Focus, Prosody and Word Order in Romanian
Edward Göbbel
75–92
Economy of Structure: The Case of Subject Clitics in Piedmontese
Cecilia Goria
93–112
Identificational Focus vs Contrastive Focus: A Syntactic Distinction
Daniela Isac
113–130
Null Objects and VP Ellipsis in European and Brazilian Portuguese
Mary Aizawa Kato
131–153
From Non-Identity to Plurality: French Différent as an Adjective and as a Determiner
Brenda Laca and Liliane Tasmowski
155–176
On the Non-Unitariness of NP Subject Inversion: A Comparison of French NP Subject Inversion in Interrogatives and Temporal Subordinates
Karen Lahousse
177–192
Past Participle Agreement with Pronominal Clitics and the Auxiliary Verbs in Italian and French
Paul Law
193–212
Deficient Pronouns and Linguistic Change in Portuguese and Spanish
Ana Maria Martins
213–230
Nominalizations of French Psychological Verbs: Syntactic Complements and Semantic Participants
Judith Meinschaefer
231–246
Notes on Vocative Case: A Case Study in Clause Structure
Andrea Moro
247–261
Mapping out the Left Periphery of the Clause: Evidence from North Western Italian Varieties
Sandra Paoli
263–277
The Left Periphery in Child French: Evidence for a Simply-Split CP
Dorian Roehrs and Marie Labelle
279–294
Plural Indefinite DPs as Plural-Polarity Items
Benjamin Spector
295–313
On the Status of the Partitive Determiner in Italian
Gianluca Storto
315–330
Determiners and Weakly Discretised Domains
Lucia M. Tovena
331–346
Index of languages and dialects
347–348
Subject Index
349–353

“The quality of the discussions is generally extremely good, on a high level with insightful analyses and/or problems sketched out [...]”
Kleanthes Grohmann, University of Cyprus in Nicosia, on Linguist List Vol. 15-653, February 2004.

“This volume offers discussions of a wide range of languages and (non-standard) varieties, and is a valuable contribution for anyone with an interest in the syntax of Romance languages, or in recent developments in (minimalist) syntax.”
Julien Eychenne, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, France, in French Language Studies, Vol 17 (2007)

Subject classification

Linguistics
Generative linguistics
Romance linguistics
Syntax
Theoretical linguistics