Main description:
The twenty papers from the eighteenth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages deal with diverse aspects of the Romance languages and Romance linguistics. They reflect the current state of Romance studies in North America and of the particular outlook among the international group of contributors and participants to LSRL 18. The thriving research front accords central importance to formal questions of synchronic analysis. The group of seven historical and typological papers amounts to a strong alternative. Several papers treat the group of Romance languages not only as a well-defined, almost exclusive research province, but move from Romance phenomena outward to other language types, even to genuinely universal dimensions. Other contributions maintain a more circumscribed outlook exploiting the typological closeness of the Romance idioms for improved analyses. Three invited contributions by Georg Bossong, Yves Charles-Morin and Maria-Luisa Rivero on typological, phonological and syntactic questions set the tone for the volume.
Table of contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Summaries of Part One: Phonology and Morphology
- Summaries of Part Two: Syntax and Semantics
- Part One: Phonology and Morphology
- The Acquisition of Spanish Syllable Structure
- Syllabification and Resyllabification in French
- Length in Milanese
- Old French Stress Patterns and Closed Syllable Adjustment
- Contrastive and Allophonic Properties of Brazilian Portuguese Vowels
- On Deriving Specifiers in Spanish
- Part Two: Syntax and Semantics
- Subjunctive and ECP
- Differential Object Marking in Romance and Beyond
- Case Absorption, Theta Structure and Pronominal Verbs
- Latin Prepositions and Romance Syntax
- In Search of the Spanish Personal Infinitive
- Some Stops on the Modality Line
- Clitic Climbing in Infinitival Constructions of Middle French
- On Comparing French and Italian
- Exceptional Case Marking Effects in Rumanian Subjunctive Complements
- On the Recoverability of Null Objects
- VP-Nominative Constructions in Italian
- Thematicity and 'Object'-Participle Agreement in Romance
- The Ambivalent Nature of Spanish Infinitives
- Deriving Expletives as Complements
- Index of Names
- Index of Languages and Language Families
- Index of Concepts
The twenty papers from the eighteenth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages deal with diverse aspects of the Romance languages and Romance linguistics. They reflect the current state of Romance studies in North America and of the particular outlook among the international group of contributors and participants to LSRL 18. The thriving research front accords central importance to formal questions of synchronic analysis. The group of seven historical and typological papers amounts to a strong alternative. Several papers treat the group of Romance languages not only as a well-defined, almost exclusive research province, but move from Romance phenomena outward to other language types, even to genuinely universal dimensions. Other contributions maintain a more circumscribed outlook exploiting the typological closeness of the Romance idioms for improved analyses. Three invited contributions by Georg Bossong, Yves Charles-Morin and Maria-Luisa Rivero on typological, phonological and syntactic questions set the tone for the volume.
Table of contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Summaries of Part One: Phonology and Morphology
- Summaries of Part Two: Syntax and Semantics
- Part One: Phonology and Morphology
- The Acquisition of Spanish Syllable Structure
- Syllabification and Resyllabification in French
- Length in Milanese
- Old French Stress Patterns and Closed Syllable Adjustment
- Contrastive and Allophonic Properties of Brazilian Portuguese Vowels
- On Deriving Specifiers in Spanish
- Part Two: Syntax and Semantics
- Subjunctive and ECP
- Differential Object Marking in Romance and Beyond
- Case Absorption, Theta Structure and Pronominal Verbs
- Latin Prepositions and Romance Syntax
- In Search of the Spanish Personal Infinitive
- Some Stops on the Modality Line
- Clitic Climbing in Infinitival Constructions of Middle French
- On Comparing French and Italian
- Exceptional Case Marking Effects in Rumanian Subjunctive Complements
- On the Recoverability of Null Objects
- VP-Nominative Constructions in Italian
- Thematicity and 'Object'-Participle Agreement in Romance
- The Ambivalent Nature of Spanish Infinitives
- Deriving Expletives as Complements
- Index of Names
- Index of Languages and Language Families
- Index of Concepts