Romance linguistics 2006 : selected papers from the 36th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRF) : New Brunswick, March-April 2006 / edited by José Camacho ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Camacho, José.

Conference Name:

Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (36th : 2006 : New Brunswick, N.J.)

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 287.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 287

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--Congresses.

Romance languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 340 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins, 2007.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This volume presents selected papers from the 36th LSRL conference held at Rutgers University in 2006. It contains twenty-two articles of current approaches to the study of Romance linguistics. Well-known researchers present their findings in areas such as of syntax and semantics, phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics. The volume contains scholarly research in areas such as parenthetical null topic construction, expletives, number and language change, performative verbs in colonial court Spanish, aspect shift, palatilization in Romanian, melodic contours in Majorcan Catalan, variation in verb type and position, and deviance in early child bilingualism among many others. It is a well-rounded selection of research topics that will enrich and widen our understanding of Romance languages.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Preface

Table of contents

Parenthetical null topic constructions in Romance

Syntax and semantics of split questions

Discontinuous wh -constituents in Brazilian Portuguese

Interpretive deficit? Evidence from the future tense in L2 Spanish

Subjects and wh -questions: Some new generalizations

Rhythmic constraints on the distribution of schwa in French

Investigating phrasing levels in French: Is there a difference between nuclear and prenuclear accents?

Expletives, number and language change

Performative verbs in Spanish monolingual and bilingual colonial court documents

Negative concord and double negation: The Romanian puzzle

Sub-extraction from subjects: A phase theory account

Inversion in wh -questions in child Romance and child English

Deviance in early child bilingualism

Topicalization in European and Brazilian Portuguese

A variation study of verb types and subject position: Verbs of light and sound emission

Macro events and 'aspect shift' in Spanish

Online processing of gender agreement in low proficient English-Spanish late bilinguals

Challenging the Person Case Constraint: Evidence from Romanian

Agree and existential constructions

Basic melodic contours in Majorcan Catalan: Shape and alignments of pitch movements in declaratives

Perceptual properties of palatalization in Romanian

A compositional analysis of manner-of-motion verbs in Italian

Index of terms and concepts

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612152504

9781282152502

1282152505

9789027291844

9027291845

9789027248022

9027248028

OCLC:

233634696