Romance languages and linguistic theory 2008 : selected papers from "Going Romance" Goningen 2008 / edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema Brigitte Kampers-Manhe Bart Hollebrandse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bok-Bennema, Reineke, 1946-

Kampers-Manhe, Brigitte.

Hollebrandse, Bart.

Series:

Romance languages and linguistic theory (RLLT) ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--Congresses.

Romance languages.

Linguistics--Congresses.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

x, 248 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This paper pursues an analysis of verbs like Italian mordicchiare (nibble) as event-internal pluractional verbs that denote composite single events where the predicate is distributed on the fragments of one entity, and grammaticise a local form of number through the part-of relation. This opens the possibility of reading number marking in aspectual terms, whereby fragmenting is a form of modification that perturbs the mapping between event and object.

Contents:

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2008

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Foreword

In support of a syntactic analysis of double agreement phenomena in Spanish

1. Introduction

2. On the characterization of double agreement

3. The 'lighter' performative hypothesis

4. In search of aux 2: Causatives in other imperative expressions

5. Conclusion

References

The syntax of Spanish comparative correlatives

1. Introduction: Constructions and comparative correlatives

2. The internal structure of C1 and C2

3. The macro-structure of Spanish CCs

4. A cartographic approach to CCs

5. Extension of the informational analysis to other adjunct clauses and conclusions

Functional vowels in main questions in Northern Italian dialects

2. The distribution of preverbal vowels in main questions

3. The distribution of preverbal vowels in embedded questions

4. Previous analyses

5. The analysis: Functional vowels

6. Long preverbal vowels

7. Questions without subject-verb inversion

8. Comparative remarks and open issues

8.1 Deictic subject clitics

8.2 Veneto dialects and wh-questions

8.3 Cross-linguistic variation in wh-questions and yes-no questions

8.4 Paduan and constructions with left-peripheral constituents

9. Conclusions

Middle scrambling with deictic locatives in European Portuguese

1. Introduction: Scrambling in Portuguese and romance

2. Preverbal vs. postverbal lá

3. Lá-preposing as middle scrambling

4. Further empirical evidence: Restructuring and non-restructuring infinitives

5. Lá-preposing and negation

6. The syntactic locus of UT-T and speaker/utterance-anchored locatives

7. Conclusion

Morphosyntactic variation in the temporal construals of non-root modals.

1. The temporal construals of non-root modals

1.1 The epistemic reading

1.2 The metaphysical reading

2. Crosslinguistic variation in the morphosyntax of non-root construals

2.1 The morphosyntax of epistemic construals

2.2 The morphosyntax of metaphysical construals

3. The temporal syntax of non root modals

4. The epistemic construal of presenttense + perfectaspect modals

5. English zero-past perfect modals: Epistemic vs. metaphysical construals

5.1 Present perspective about a past situation (epistemic reading)

5.2 Past perspective about a future in the past situation (metaphysical reading)

6. Past-Tense modals in Spanish and French: Epistemic vs. metaphysical construals

6.1 The metaphysical reading of past tense modals in French/Spanish

6.2 The epistemic reading of simple past tense modals in French/Spanish

On the realization of LF-Binding in some degree dependencies

2. Background on degree constructions

2.1 Degrees and binding

2.2 Cross-linguistic variation

3. The analysis

3.1 Towards the local structure

3.2 Degree questions

3.3 Subcomparatives

4. Extensions and issues

5. Conclusions

Some remarks on the evidential nature of the Romanian presumptive

1.1 The Romanian presumptive

2. The presumptive - a strategy for indirect evidentiality

2.1 Conditional-based morphology

2.2 Inferential-based morphology

2.3 Future-based morphology

2.4 Subjunctive-based morphology

3. Indirect evidentials vs. other modals

3.1 Adverbial interactions

3.2 Subject placement

3.3 Conversational implicature vs. presupposition

4. Structure of indirect evidentials

4.1 Decomposing indirect evidentials

Toward a syntactic reinterpretation of Harris &amp.

Halle (2005)

1. Harris &amp

Halle's approach

2. Subdistinctions among clitics

3. Clitic sequences

4. The status of plural -n

The puzzle of subjunctive tenses

2. The tense-aspect system of Spanish

2.1 The indicative paradigm

2.2 The subjunctive paradigm

2.3 Subjunctive tenses in root contexts

3. Subjunctive tenses in argument clauses

3.1 Temporal (dis-)harmony and its interpretation

3.2 Intensional subjunctives and future orientation

3.3 Subjunctive contexts and DAR-effects

4. Concluding remarks

Nounness, gender, class and syntactic structures in Italian nouns

2. The data, the "final vowel" and a general hypothesis

3.1 Significant complex vowels

3.2 Syntactic structures in Italian nouns

4. Towards a classification of Italian (nominal) roots

States and temporal interpretation in Capeverdean

2. The empirical puzzle

2.1 Simple statements

2.2 Some complications

2.3 Prior approaches

3. Verbs and morphemes revisited

3.1 The verbs

3.2 Various combinations

4. Complex operations

4.1 Tense (-ba) and aspect (sata and ø)

4.2 Modal situations with ta

5. Where sabe and konxe are not stative bases

5.1 A crucial kind of state: consequent states

5.2 Interaction with point adverbials

5.3 Temporal results

6. Concluding remarks

Pluractional verbs that grammaticise number through the part-of relation

1. Verbal plurality

1.1 Generalities

1.2 Internal pluractionality

2. A semantic analysis

2.1 Parts and plurality

2.2 The number pattern

2.3 The conative reading

3. Aspectual considerations

3.1 (A)Telicity

3.2 Incrementality

3.3 Beyond arguments, to scales.

3.4 Against a condition on cardinality

3.5 Diminutive pluractionality and aspect

Language index

Subject index

The Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612897313

9781282897311

1282897314

9789027287618

9027287619

OCLC:

696790838