Features and Interfaces in Romance

Essays in honor of Heles Contreras

Editors

Julia Herschensohn

| University of Washington

Enrique Mallén

| Texas A&M University

Karen Zagona

| University of Washington

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This volume brings together new research on theoretical Romance Linguistics; its intended audience is scholars in the field of formal grammar, especially those specializing in Romance languages. It represents the latest work on the structure of Romance languages, with relevant comparisons to other languages such as English and Basque. As the volume's title indicates, two related themes recur in these studies: the role of grammatical features in sub-modules of the grammar, and the interaction of sub-modules with each other and with external systems at the “interfaces”. The contributions to this volume, all framed within current theoretical models, explore these and related problems in the analysis of Romance. The volume contains studies on morphology, phonology, syntax and semantics, and includes language and subject indices.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 222] 2001. xiv, 302 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.222

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Seemingly Ergative and Ergatively Seeming Xabier Artiagoitia	1
On the Weight of Light Predicates Ignacio Bosque	23
On the Interpretation of Focus Features José Camacho	39
Dequeísmo in Spanish and the Structure and Features of CP Violeta Demonte and Olga Fernández-Soriano	49
Evaluative Suffixation in Spanish and the Syntax of Derivational Processes Luis Eguren	71
The Lower Operator Position with Parasitic Gaps Joseph Edmonds	85
NP Movement and Adjective Position in the DP Phases Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Enrique Mallén	107
Reflections on A Phonological Grammar of Spanish James Harris	133
The Long Fall: An intonational melody of Argentinian Spanish Ellen M. Kaisse	147
On the Position of Preposed PPs in English and Spanish Paula Kempchinsky	161
The Morphologization and Grammaticalization of French Liaison Jurgen Klausenburger	175
Determining the Acquisition of Determiners: On the innateness of functional categories Conxita Lleó	189
Sonority as a Primitive Phonological Feature: Evidence from Spanish complex onset phonotactics Fernando Martínez-Gil	203
Weak Subject Pronouns in Caribbean Spanish and XP Pied-Piping Francisco Ordóñez and Antxon Olarrea	223
The Realization of Number in Italian and Spanish Mario Saltarelli	239
Discourse Topic Constraints on Left Dislocated Subjects and CLLD Structures Liliana Sánchez	255
The Puzzle of Restrictive Relative Clauses with Conjoined DP Antecedents Margarita Suñer	267
Definite Determiners in French and Spanish: Features and extraction Christine Tellier	279
Subject Index	293
Name Index	297

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Bosque, Ignacio

2012. In The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics, ► pp. 373 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Generative linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Romance linguistics

Syntax

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

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

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2001052811 | Marc record