Romance Linguistics 2007

Selected papers from the 37th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Pittsburgh, 15–18 March 2007

Editors

Pascual José Masullo

| University of Pittsburgh

Erin O'Rourke

| University of Pittsburgh

Chia-Hui Huang

| University of Pittsburgh

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The present volume includes a selection of twenty-one peer-reviewed and revised papers from the 37th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Pittsburgh in 2007. The papers cover a range of topics in morphology, syntax, phonology and language acquisition. A number of languages and varieties are also analyzed, including Italian, Spanish, Judeo-Spanish, Old Spanish, French, Old French, and Romanian. Contributions include papers from three of the invited speakers, Heles Contreras, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Julia Herschensohn. This volume highlights theoretical issues under current debate in Romance linguistics.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 304] 2009. vii, 361 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.304

Table of Contents

Foreword	vi
Null Expletives and Case: The View from Romance Gabriela Alboiu	1–18
On the Existence of Null Complementizers in Old French Deborah Arteaga	19–36
On the Lack of Transparency Effects in French Jean-Marc Authier and Lisa A. Reed	37–49
On the Syllabification of Prevocalic /w/ in Judeo-Spanish Travis G. Bradley	51–67
Word Order and Minimalism Heles Contreras	69–87
The Status of Old French Clitics in the 12th Century Jennifer Culbertson	89–104
Towards a Unified Account of Positive and Negative Polarity: Evidence from Romanian Anamaria Fălăus	105–120
Correlativization and Degree Quantification in Spanish Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach	121–141
Imperfect Variation and Class Marking in the Old Spanish Third Conjugation Nicholas Henriksen	143–156
Licensing Negative Fragments and the Interpretation of Comparison Simona Herdan	157–172
Developing I-Language in L1 and L2 Julia Herschensohn	173–192
Crypto-Variation in Italian Velar Palatalisation Martin Krämer	193–208
Antisymmetry and the Typology of Relative Clauses: Morphological Evidence from Romance Juan Martín	209–225
Romance Paths as Cognate Complements: A Lexical-Syntactic Account Jaume Mateu and Gemma Rigau	227–241
Discriminating Pitch Accent Alignment in Spanish Rebecca E. Ronquest and Manuel Díaz-Campos	243–260
Proscriptions…Gaps…and Something in Between: An Experimental Examination of Spanish Phonotactics Michael Shelton, Chip Gerfen and Nicolás Gutiérrez Palma	261–275
Romanian Palatalization: The Role of Place of Articulation in Perception Laura Spinu	277–289
Putting in Order the Spanish DP Emma Ticio Quesada	291–306
The Domain of Palatalization in Romanian Irene Vogel and Laura Spinu	307–319
Rhotic Metathesis Asymmetries in Romance: Formalizing the Effects of Articulation and Perception on Sound Change Eric Louis Russell and Travis G. Bradley	321–337
The Left Edge in the Spanish Clausal Structure María Luisa Zubizarreta	339–357
Index	359–361

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Leonetti, Manuel

2014. In Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2012 [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 6], ► pp. 37 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Romance linguistics

Syntax

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF/2AD – Linguistics/Romance, Italic & Rhaeto-Romanic languages

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

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2009003058 | Marc record