Romance languages and linguistic theory 2004 : selected papers from "Going Romance," Leiden, 9-11 December 2004 / edited by Jenny Doetjes, Paz Gonzalez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doetjes, Jenny.

González, Paz.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 278.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 278

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--Congresses.

Romance languages.

Romance philology--Congresses.

Romance philology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 320 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Publishing Company, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume brings together a selection of papers from the eighteenth 'Going Romance' symposium, held at Leiden University, 9-11 December 2004. These papers cover a broad range of topics in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, and acquisition, in a variety of Romance languages

Contents:

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Introduction

Contents

CUALQUIER, EXCEPTION PHRASES AND NEGATION

1. Introduction

2. Some facts about distribution

3. "Cualquier" as a Hamblin-indefinite

4. Implicatures and metalinguistic negation

5. Exception phrases

6. Conclusion

References

AGREEMENT AND PREDICATE INVERSION IN SPANISH DP

2. The lo-de construction and the DP-internal predicate inversion construction

3. Lo-de versus lo-que

4. Against a unifying analysis of lo-de and lo-que

5. A new proposal: lo-de as a DP-internal predicate inversion construction

6. Conclusions

MODES OF SEMANTIC COMBINATIONS: NP / DP

1. Introducing NP vs. DP adjectives

2. The Romanian adjectival article cel, a Predication head

3. DPs that require DP modifiers

4. The pre-nominal position of predicative adjectives: Participial adjectives

5. Conclusions

WHERE DID ROMANCE N-RAISING COME FROM?

2. The noun phrase in Classical Latin and Old English: an outline

3. Old English

4. Latin

5. Conclusion

Sources

NULL COMPLEMENT ANAPHORA IN ROMANCE

2. Null complement anaphora in English

3. NCA as deep anaphora in Spanish

4. NCA as surface anaphora: the case of Brazilian and European Portuguese

5. Surface anaphora and the theory of ellipsis

6. Concluding remarks

BENEFACTIVES AREN'T GOALS IN ITALIAN

1. Introduction: a-phrases in Italian

2. High and low datives: Passive and binding

3. Analysis

4. Causative structure and benefactive datives

5. Questions and conclusions

T-to-C MOVEMENT IN RELATIVE CLAUSES

2. T-to-C movement

3. The raising analysis of relative clauses.

4. The proposal: a T-to-C movement account

PROPERTIES OF INFINITIVAL STRUCTURES IN ROMANCE

2. An analysis for ARIs

3. Temporal modifiers in ARIs

4. Cross-linguistic predictions

5. Widening the empirical domain: Ser and estar

6. Open issues and future research

7. Concluding remarks

EMPHATIC AFFIRMATION AND POLARITY

2. Emphatic affirmation in European and Brazialian Portuguese

3. Extending the analysis: other Romance languages

4. Conclusion

LANGUAGE VARIATION AND HISTORICAL CHANGE

1. Some objects are more object than others

2. Optimization of differential object marking

3. The development of DOM in Spanish

4. Variation, historical change, and stochastic OT

5. Discussion

SPECIAL INTERROGATIVES - LEFT PERIPHERY, WH-DOUBLING, AND (APPARENTLY) OPTIONAL ELEMENTS

2. Standard wh-questions in Bellunese/Pagotto

3. Special wh-questions in Bellunese/Pagotto

4. Standard questions in the NEIDs - the general framework of analysis

5. Surprise-disapproval questions as an exemplary case of special questions: I - bare wh with a positive restriction

6. Surprise-disapproval questions II - the bare wh with a default restriction: che

7. Summary and consequences of the analysis of SDQs

DOUBLE AGREEMENT IN COMPLEX INVERSION

2. Clitic inversion as complex inversion

3. Previous analyses of complex inversion

4. Subject positions in complex inversion

5. The role of -t- in complex inversion

6. Double agreement in complex inversion

7. Conclusion

SUBEXTRACTION IN ROMANCE INTERROGATIVES

1. Wh-subextraction: the data

2. Possible analyses for wh-subextraction

3. Wh-subextraction in Catalan.

4. Summary and some further speculations

INDEX

The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612155321

9781282155329

1282155326

9789027293206

9027293201

OCLC:

463170920