Theoretical and experimental approaches to Romance linguistics : selected papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Salt Lake City, March 2004 / edited by Randall S. Gess, Edward Rudin.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Gess, Randall Scott, 1963-

Rubin, Edward J.

Conference Name:

Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (34th : 2004 : University of Utah)

Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 272.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 272

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--Congresses.

Romance languages.

Physical Description:

viii, 367 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 20 papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 34th LSRL, held in Salt Lake City, in 2004. The papers deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in Romance Linguistics and include several from the conference parasession, which focused on experimental approaches to problems in Romance Linguistics. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in current issues in theoretical Romance Linguistics.

Contents:

THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES TO ROMANCE LINGUISTICS

Editorial page

Title page

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

DETERMINER SHARING AND CYCLICITY INWH-MOVEMENT!

1. Introduction

2. Gapping and Determiner Sharing

3. Determiner Sharing in Questions

4. Cyclicity in Wh-movement

5. Conclusion

REFERENCES

THE ACQUISITION OF OBJECT CLITIC CONSTRUCTIONS IN ROMANIAN

2. A Description of the Object Clitic Constructions

3. Language Acquisition Background

4. Explaining Cross-linguistic Variation in Clitic Acquisition Patterns

5. Present Study

6. Conclusions

SYSTEMIC MARKEDNESS AND PHONETIC DETAIL IN PHONOLOGY

2. Rhotic neutralization and external sandhi deletion in Cantabrian Spanish

3. Dispersion Theory and the Spanish rhotic contrast

4. Spanish clusters and Cantabrian external sandhi

5. Gestures, segments, and systemic markedness in the phonology

6. Conclusion

QUANTIFYING RHYTHMIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SPANISH, ENGLISH, AND HISPANIC ENGLISH

2. Theoretical Background

3. PVI Methodology

4. Results

5. Conclusions

PHONETICALLY-DRIVEN EPENTHESIS ASYMMETRIES IN FRENCH AND SPANISH OBSTRUENT-LIQUID CLUSTERS

2. Obstruent-liquid clusters in French and Spanish

3. The dissimilation hypothesis

4. Current study

5. Results

6. Analysis and discussion

7. Conclusions

APPENDIX

AGREE, THE EPP-F AND FURTHER-RAISING IN SPANISH

1. Conceptual problems for Agree as in Chomsky 2000

2. Proposal: a different timing for Agree and "second-Merge"

3. Further-raising in Spanish

4. Allowing for Further-raising

DIMINUTIVES IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE AND OUTPUT-OUTPUT CORRESPONDENCE

1. Introduction.

2. BP diminutives and plurals

3. Are -inho/a and -zinho/a suffixes?

4. Output-Output correspondence and diminutives in BP

5. Expanding the analysis

CHILDREN'S PRODUCTION AND COMPREHENSION OF SPANISH GRAMMATICAL ASPECT

2. Background on Aspectual Meaning

3. Acquisition Background

4. Experimental Design

MORPHEME REALIZATION AND MORPHOLOGICAL COALESCENCE

2. Data

3. MP correspondence

4. Morphological coalescence in definite masculine and neuters in Romanian

COMPLEX NUCLEI IN ARTICULATORY PHONOLOGY

2. The phonological status of Romanian diphthongs ea - oa

3. An acoustic study on alternating/non-alternating [e] in Romanian

4. Articulatory Phonology and Romanian ea vs. ja

PHONETIC CUES TO SPECIAL CASES OF LIAISON

2. Formal representations of Liaison consonants

3. A special case: Liaison sans enchaînement

4. Looking for a prosodic domain

5. Discussion

LICIT AND ILLICIT NULL OBJECTS IN L1 FRENCH

2. A grammar of null objects in adult speech

3. The L1 acquisition perspective

4. Discussion

SLUICING WITH COPULA

2. Spanish SwCop derives from a cleft

3. The Left Periphery of SwCop in Spanish

4. Spanish SwCop shows true Sluicing (TP-deletion)

BARE NOMINALS IN PAPIAMENTU AND BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

2. The basic patterns and the problems for previous bare nominal analyses

3. The exo-skeletal approach (Borer 2004)

4. Bare singulars

5. Bare plurals

REFERENCES.

RADDOPPIAMENTO SINTATTICO (RS) AND WORD-MEDIAL GEMINATION IN ITALIAN

2. Raddoppiamento sintattico (RS) and word-medial gemination

3. Background

4. Aims

5. Methods

6. Discussion

ROMANIAN N-WORDS AND THE FINITE/NON-FINITE DISTINCTION

2. The distribution of Romanian n-words

3. Deriving the behavior of Romanian n-words

4. Conclusion

PERSEVERATIVE PHONETIC EFFECTS IN BILINGUAL CODE-SWITCHING

2. The present study

3. Results and discussion

THE PREPOSITION'S PREPOSITION IN ITALIAN

2. Adverbial and Grammatical Prepositions

3. Presence vs. absence of a

4. Spatial (un)boundedness

THE YO-YO EFFECT

2. Structural priming

3. Data

4. Methodology

TONAL LEVELS IN PUEBLA MEXICO SPANISH DECLARATIVES AND ABSOLUTE INTERROGATIVES

2. Procedure

3. Findings

INDEX OF TERMS &amp

CONCEPTS

The series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612156342

9781282156340

1282156349

9789027294050

9027294054

OCLC:

233697267