Romance languages and linguistic theory 2006 : selected papers from "Going Romance," Amsterdam, 7-9 december 2006 / edited by Daniele Torck, W. Leo Wetzels.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Going Romance (Conference), Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Torck, Danièle.

Wetzels, Leo.

Conference Name:

Going Romance

Going Romance (Conference)

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; 303

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--Congresses.

Romance languages.

Linguistics--Congresses.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

viii, 262 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The annual conference series 'Going Romance' has developed into a major European discussion forum where ideas about language and linguistics and about Romance languages in particular are put in an inter­active perspective, giving room to both universality and Romance-internal variation. The current volume contains a selection of the papers that were presented at the 20th Going Romance conference, held at the VU University in Amsterdam in December 2006. The papers in the volume deal with current issues in phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, and range across a variety of Romance languages.

Contents:

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

FOREWORD

CONTENTS

UNPRONOUNCED MUCH AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF DEGREE EXPRESSIONS IN SPANISH

1. Deg-heads and Q heads in Spanish

2. Two series of degree expressions in Spanish

3. So-pronominalization and Much-support

4. Two accounts of the distribution of Deg-heads and Q-heads

5. Unpronounced MUCH and the distribution of degree expressions in Spanish

6. Unpronounced MUCH and degree adverbials in English

7. Conclusion

References

THE STATUS OF THE (SUPPOSED) EXPLETIVE IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE EXISTENTIAL CLAUSES

1. Introduction

2. Arguments against você as an expletive

3. Theoretical pressupositions

4. Pieces of evidence

5. Possibly false expletives in other languages

6. Conclusion

ON THE LINEARIZATION OF ADJECTIVES IN ROMANIAN

2. The classification of adjectives - A proposal

3. Relative and intentional adjectives are kind-level

4. The syntax of an adjective entirely follows from its and denotation

5. On nominal peripheries

6. The n*- versus the d*-periphery

7. The isomorphic structure of the two peripheries

P-features

8. Conclusions

PREPOSITIONLESS GENITIVE AND N+N COMPOUNDING IN (OLD) FRENCH AND ITALIAN

1. N+N compounding between syntax and morphology

2. Two classes of N+N compounds

3. Juxtaposition genitive in Old French and Occitan

4. Juxtaposition genitive in Old Italian and in Modern Italian dialects

5. Some remarks on genitive compounds in Frisian

6. Conclusions

Sources

VOWEL ELISION IN SPOKEN ITALIAN

2. The function words under analysis

3. Data and methods

4. Results

5. Discussion

6. An Optimal Theoretic analysis of Italian vowel elision

7. Conclusions.

References

ACOUSTIC CORRELATES OF PHONOLOGICAL MICROVARIATIONS

1. The stressed phonological system of Salento

2. Our research in Southern Salento: aims, methods and acoustic analysis

3. The stressed vowels of Southern Salento and their internal processes

4. A possible phonological analysis of the micro-parametric variation

5. An attempt to incorporate phonetics in phonological analysis

ROMANCE LENITION

2. Romance Lenition: Diachronic and synchronic facts

3. Previous analyses

4. Lenition and Comparative Markedness

5. Summary

MAIN STRESS IN ITALIAN NONCE NOUNS

2. Method

3. Results

4. Analysis

5. Conclusion

NEGATIVE CONCORD AS FEATURE SHARING

2. NCIs in Hungarian

3. Proposal

4. Conclusion

APPOSITIVE SENTENCES AND THE STRUCTURE(S) OF COORDINATION

1. Appositive vs. non-appositive sentences

2. Syntactic representations of coordination

3. The Set-Merge approach to coordination and the c-command effects

4. Pair-Merge and syntactic structure of appositive coordination

5. Appositives as parenthetical adjuncts and the blocking of c-command

6. Concluding remarks

CLEAVING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SLUICING AND P-STRANDING

2. Sluicing with P-stranding in Spanish and BP

3. The proposal

4. Support for the analysis

5. Refining aspects of the analysis: Empty-Headed and Free Relatives

Acknowledgements

Appendix: French Data

ANOTHER LOOK AT WH-Q UESTIONS IN ROMANCE

Introduction

1. A Reminder: Wh-Configurations of the Illasi Type(Poletto &amp

Pollock 2004b)

2. Mendrisiotto

3. Analysing the Various Wh-Paradigms of Mendrisiotto

4. In situ Wh-Questions in French.

5. On 'Ce que' questions, 'Can't Find the Value' Questions, Expanded Interrogative Pronouns and Related Topics in French Interrogative Syntax

INDEX OF SUBJECTS &amp

TERMS

The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612445040

9781282445048

1282445049

9789027290922

902729092X

OCLC:

608696722