Current Issues in Romance Languages

Selected papers from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ann Arbor, 8–11 April 1999

Editors

Teresa Satterfield

| University of Michigan

Christina Tortora

| University of Michigan

Diana Cresti

| University of Michigan

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This book presents an enlightening collection of papers contributing to theoretical discussions across many topics within the study of Romance Languages and Linguistics. The work originates from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held in 1999 at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, although only a small subpart of the proceedings papers are included in this volume. The selected papers have been reworked for the current publication.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 220] 2002. viii, 412 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.220

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
On becoming a Clitic: The prenominal possessive in Romance Nancy Mae Antrim	1–15
Primary stress in Spanish Zsuzsanna Bárkányi	17–31
Spanish clauses without complementizer Claudia Brovetto	33–46
On the nature of bare nouns in Haitian Creole Viviane Déprez	47–64
Towards a syntax of adult Root Infinitives Ricardo Etxepare and Kleanthes K. Grohmann	65–79
Re-examining Spanish ‘resyllabification’ Timothy L. Face	81–94
On preverbal subjects in Spanish Grant Goodall	95–109
The semantics of Spanish free relatives Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach	111–127
Split subject pronoun paradigms: Feature geometry and underspecification David Heap	129–144
Locative inversion, PP topicalization and the EPP Paula Kempchinsky	145–158
Contrast maintenance and intervocalic stop lenition in Spanish and Portuguese: When is it alright to lenite? Anthony M. Lewis	159–171
Epenthesis vs. Elision in Afro-Iberian language: A constraint-based approach to Creole phonology John M. Lipski	173–188
Contrastive discourse markers in Spanish: Beyond contrast Monica Malamud Makowski	189–205
Coda obstruents and local constraint conjunction in north-central Peninsular Spanish Richard E. Morris	207–223
Bare nouns and the morphosyntax of number Alan Munn and Cristina Schmitt	225–239
Non-logical if Josep Quer	241–254
Selecting atomic cells from temporal domains: Fixing parameters in Romance Joan Rafel	255–269
Non-homorganic nasal clusters in northern Italian dialects Lori Repetti	271–285
Romanian nominal structure, proforms, and genitive case checking Edward J. Rubin	287–300
Adjectival agreement within DP without feature movement Petra Sleeman	301–316
A constraint-based analysis of intraspeaker variation: Vocalic epenthesis in Vimeu Picard Jeffrey Steele and Julie Auger	317–335
Aspect in the prepositional system of Romance Esther Torrego	337–357
A unified analysis of French and Italian en / ne Dieter Vermandere	359–373
Variation in Spanish aspiration and prosodic boundary constraints Caroline R. Wiltshire	375–389
General index	391–403

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Subjects

Linguistics

Generative linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Romance linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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