Romance languages and linguistic theory 2010 : selected papers from "Going Romance" Leiden 2010 / edited by Irene Franco, Sara Lusini, Andres Saab.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Going Romance (Conference), Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Franco, Irene, 1980-

Conference Name:

Going Romance (Conference) (2010 : Leiden, Netherlands)

Going Romance (Conference)

Series:

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 1574-552X ; vol. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--Congresses.

Romance languages.

Linguistics--Congresses.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

I claim that scope interactions provide empirical evidence in order to establish the argument structure of the causative construction in Romance languages. Since quantifier raising adjoins a quantified argument to vP, quantified arguments interact differently if they are coarguments than if they are not. Thus, scope interactions are able to give indications on what arguments in a causative structure belong to the same vP, and, as a consequence, how vPs may occur in a causative structure. The data I discuss shows that in Romance causative structures the causee and the internal argument (if any)

Contents:

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2010; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword; From Romance clitics to case; 1. Case: The oblique / dative; 1.1 Split accusativity; 2. The person case constraint; 2.1 A Case-based account; 2.2 A grammar without repairs; References; Contextual conditions on stem alternations; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Stem alternations in context; 1.2 The empirical question; 2. Conditions on contextual allomorphy; 2.1 Extension to stem alternation; 3. Two alternations in Spanish verbs; 3.1 Diphthongization; 3.2 "Raising"; 4. Interim summary

5. A Question and a conjecture6. Conclusions; References; State nouns are Kimian states*; 1. Preliminaries and background concepts: States and nouns; 1.1 Preliminaries: A working definition of state; 1.2 Kimian states and Davidsonian states; 2. Nouns coming from K-state verbs; 2.1 Incompatibility with place modifiers; 2.2 Incompatibility with manner denoting adjectives; 2.3 Unavailability of temporal readings with ambiguous adjectives; 3. From D-state verbs to nouns; 3.1 From D-state verbs to K-state nouns; 3.1.1 Asymmetries with place modifiers; 3.1.2 Asymmetries with manner modifiers

3.1.3 Asymmetries with temporal readings of modifiers3.2 Two classes of D-state verbs; 4. Analysis: Some D-states contain a K-state; 4.1 Flexible D-states contain a K-state: Semantic evidence; 4.2 Matching the semantics with the internal projections of the verb; 5. Conclusions and extensions; References; I know the answer'; 1. Introduction; 2. Some Capeverdean statives need ta for a non-past reading; 2.1 The data that resist the stativity explanation; 2.1.1 Overt temporal morphemes; 2.1.2 Why stativity is not enough; 2.2 Stative properties of these present situations

3. The relevant state is a Perfect state4. Cross-linguistic idiosyncrasies of 'know'; 5. Final remarks; References; Stressed vowel duration and stress placement in Italian; 1. Introduction; 2. Italian stress position and vowel duration; 2.1 Stress position; 2.2 Stress is contrastive; 2.3 Stressed vowel duration; 2.4 Explanations of vowel duration; 3. Experiment; 3.1 Design of the experiment; 3.2 Results; 3.2.1 Post-tonic vowels of proparoxytones: Duration; 3.2.2 Post-tonic vowels of proparoxytones: Centralization; 4. Interpretation of the results and analysis; 4.1 Stressed vowels

4.2 Duration and centralization of post-tonic vowels5. Principles of stress assignment; 5.1 Non-lexical stress and syllable weight; 5.2 Stress assignment and number of syllables; 5.2.1 Further data on stress shift; 5.3 Provisional conclusions and discussion of previous explanations; 6. Feet and stress assignment in Italian; 6.1 Foot types; 6.2 Non-lexical stress; 7. Conclusions and further directions; References; Serial prosodification and voiced stop geminates in Catalan*; 1. Introduction; 2. Data; 3. Theoretical background; 3.1 Harmonic serialism and prosodification

3.2 A theory of serial syllabification in Harmonic Serialism

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Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283895316

1283895315

9789027272478

9027272476

OCLC:

823388702