A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use

Selected papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19–22 April 2001

Editors

Rafael Núñez-Cedeño

| University of Illinois, Chicago

Luis López

| University of Illinois, Chicago

Richard Cameron

| University of Illinois, Chicago

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Twenty-one articles from the 31st LSRL investigate cutting-edge issues and interfaces across phonology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, semantics, and syntax in multiple dialects of such Romance languages as Catalan, French, Creole French, and Spanish, both old and modern. Research in Romance phonology moves from the quantitative and synchronic to cover issues of diachrony and Optimality theory. Work within pragmatics and sociolinguistics also explores the synchronic/diachronic link while topicalizing such issues as change of non-pro-drop Swiss French toward pro-drop status, scalar implicatures, speech acts, word order, and simplification in contexts of language contact. Finally, debates in linguistic theory are resumed in the work on syntax and semantics within both a Minimalist perspective and an Optimality framework. How do Catalan and French children acquire AGR and TNS? Can Basque Spanish be compared to topic-oriented Chinese? If Spanish preverbal subjects occur in an A-position, can Spanish no longer be compared to Greek?

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 238] 2003. xv, 384 pp.

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Table of Contents

Table of contents
Introduction and acknowledgment Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Luis López and Richard Cameron	vii
Phonology and morphology
Pronominal clitics in Picard revisited Julie Auger	3
Spanish /s/: : A different story from beginning (initial) to end (final) Esther L. Brown and Rena Torres Cacoullos	21
Consonant intrusion in heterosyllabic cosonant-liquid clusters in Old Spanish and Old French: : An Optimality theoretical account Fernando Martínez-Gil	39
A constraint interaction theory of Italian raddoppiamento Mario Saltarelli	59
Pragmatics and sociolinguistics
Ground/Focus: : A perspective from French Claire Beyssade, Jean-Marie Marandin and Annie Rialland	83
The subject clitics of European Conversational French: : Morphologization, grammatical change, semantic change, and change in progress Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber and Linda R. Waugh	99
A scalar propositional negative polarity item in Spanish Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Scott A. Schwenter	119
A pragmatic analysis of Imperfect Conditionals Michela Ippolito	133
Indirect objects in ditransitive constructions in Brazilian Portuguese Heloisa Maria M. Lima-Salles and Maria Marta Pereira Scherre	151
Pragmatic variation in Spanish: : External request modifications in Peninsular and Uruguayan Spanish Rosina Márquez Reiter	167
Clitic simplification in a contact variety of Spanish: : Third person accusative pronouns in the Mexican-American community of Houston N. Ariana Mrak	181
The expression of topic in spoken Spanish: : An empirical study Francisco Ocampo	195
An adaptive approach to noun gender in New York contact Spanish Ricardo Otheguy and Naomi Shin	209
Syntax
Properties of the double object construction in Spanish Tonia Bleam	233
Spanish perception verbs and sequence of tenses: : Aktionsart effects Alicia Cipria	253
Defaults and competition in the acquisition of functional categories in Catalan and French Lisa Davidson and Géraldine Legendre	273
Constraints on the meanings of Bare Nouns Viviane Déprez	291
Null objects revisited Jon A. Franco and Alazne Landa	311
Auxiliary choice and pronominal verb constructions: : The case of the passé surcomposé Kate Paesani	327
The lexical preverbal subject in a Romance Null Subject Language: : Where are thou? Margarita Suñer	341
Intervention effects in the French wh-in-situ construction: : Syntax or interpretation? María Luisa Zubizarreta	359
Index

“A recurrent theme in many of the papers in this volume is the reconsideration and reevaluation of longstanding phonological, morphological and syntactic phenomena within new theoretical frameworks.”

Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville, USA, in Lingua 115 (2005)

“The volume would be of interest to any linguist concerned with the application of linguistic theory to Romance data. In addition, because of the high number of papers dealing with linguistic variation, the collection constitutes a valuable reference for those Romance linguists whose research belongs to the domain of dialectology.”

Natalya I. Stolova, Colgate University, in Language Vol. 82:3 (2006)

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Subjects

Linguistics

Generative linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Romance linguistics

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

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

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