Romance languages and linguistic theory 1999 : selected papers from 'Going Romance' 1999, Leiden, 9-11 December / edited by Yves D'Hulst, Johan Rooryck, Jan Schroten.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hulst, Yves d'.

Rooryck, Johan.

Schroten, Jan.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 221.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 221

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--Congresses.

Romance languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume brings together a selection of articles presented at 'Going Romance' 1999. The articles focus on current syntactic and semantic issues in various Romance languages, including Catalan, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and a number of Northern Italian dialects. A large number of articles focus on negation, which was the theme of the workshop at Going Romance 1999, but other topics investigated include Wh- in situ, free relatives, exclamatives, lexical decomposition and thematic structure, unaccusative inversion, and temporal existential constructions. Most articles are comparative in nature, relating the different syntactic and semantic properties of both Romance and non-Romance languages to principles of Universal Grammar. The theoretical frameworks adopted in the various articles are diverse, ranging from the Principles and Parameters framework to HPSG.

Contents:

ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTIC THEORY 1999

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

INTRODUCTION

Table of contents

ON THE NATURE OF WH-PHRASES -WORD ORDER AND WH-IN-SITU EVIDENCE FROM PORTUGUESE, FRENCH, HUNGARIAN AND TETUM

0. Introduction

1. Wh-questions - the data

2. The internal structure of wh-phrases

3. Licensing wh-questions and word order -the proposal

4. Hungarian

5. Tetum

References

NEGATIVE CONCORD AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF QUANTIFIERS

1. Negative Concord: empirical observations

2. A Constraint-based Account

3. Conclusion

CLAUSE STRUCTURE, SUBJECT POSITIONS AND VERB MOVEMENT ABOUT THE POSITION OF SEMPRE IN EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

1. Clause Structure in EP, the position of sempre and Verb movement

2. Some notes on the confirmative meaning of sempre

3. Sentence Structure in BP, verb movement and the nature of verbal agreement

4. Conclusions

ON THE MULTIPLE EXPRESSION OF NEGATION IN ROMANCE

1. The multiple expression problem

2. Negation within the clause

3. Expressing negation within the clause: Principle 1

4. Recursivity of negation within the predicate argument domain: Principle 2

5. Neg-first: Principle 3

6. Conclusion

PROPERTY DENOTING OBJECTS IN IDIOMATIC CONSTRUCTIONS

1.Thedata

2. Head approach unified with phrase structure

3. Main general theses

4. Conclusion

ON THE RELATION OF PRIORITY BETWEEN CAUSATIVE AND INCHOATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS

1. Causative/ inchoative alternations in Italian: a brief sketch

2. Verb classification

3. Three classes of alternating verbs: an analysis

SPANISH EXCLAMATIVES AND THE INTERPRETATION OF THE LEFT PERIPHERY

0. Introduction.

1. Spanish root exclamatives

2. General properties

3. Verbal root exclamatives

4. C exclamatives

5. Adv/A/P exclamatives

6. Det exclamatives

7. WH Exclamatives

8. The Semantics of exclamatives

9. Conclusion

UNACCUSATIVE INVERSION IN FRENCH

Part I. An unaccusative construction

1. Comparison between stylistic and unaccusative inversions

2. An unaccusative construction

Part II. Against postulating a chain in unaccusative inversion

1. Control of participial en-adjunct, infinitival suns-adjunct

2. Agreement

3. En pronominalization

Part III. An HPSG analysis

1. Definition of the unaccusative verb

2. The raising verb selecting an unaccusative verb

Conclusion

LOCATIVE AND LOCATUM VERBS REVISITED EVIDENCE FROM ROMANCE

1. Three semantic approaches: Pinker (1989), Jackendoff (1990), and Labelle (1992a/b)

2. Hale and Keyset's (1998) lexical relational analysis revisited

NEGATIVE CONCORD AND THE MINIMALIST APPROACH

1. Negative Concord, N-words and underspecified polarity items

2. The Spec-Head approaches to Negative Concord

3. A proposal on the syntax of Negative Concord

FREE RELATIVES AS DEFECTIVE WH-ELEMENTS EVIDENCE FROM THE NORTH-WESTERN ITALIAN DIALECTS

1. The data of the AIS (1919-1926)

2. The distal demonstrative as wh-element in some Northern Italian varieties

3. Quello che in standard Italian

4. The Ligurian dialects

5. The wh-item kwe in the Piedmontese dialects

6. French quoi

7. A feature matrix for wh-demonstratives

8. Summary

TEMPORAL EXISTENTIAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN ROMANCE

1. Romance temporal existential constructions

2. Two types of temporal constructions

3. Concluding remarks

FRENCH NE IN NON-VERBAL CONTEXTS

1. Two types of negative marker

2. The problems

3. NEG-raising and modals

4. The proposal

5. Summary

FRENCH NEGATIVE SENTENCES WITH AVANT 'BEFORE'-PHRASES AND JUSQU'À 'UNTIL'-PHRASES

1. The syntactic difference between 'avant'-phrases and 'jusqu'à'-phrases and its semantic effects

2. Negative 'avant'-sentences

3. Negative 'jusqu'à'-sentences

4. Pragmatic effects

5. Conclusion

DECOMPOSING THE NEG-CRITERION

1. The Neg-Criterion

2. Proposal

3. Italian

4. West Flemish

5. Other languages

References.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613121547

9781283121545

1283121549

9789027284396

9027284393

OCLC:

727649400