Main description:
This volume contains selected papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL-27), which was held at the University of California, Irvine, on February 20-22, 1997. The 22 papers deal with current issues in linguistic theory as they can be illuminated by the close analysis and comparative study of Romance languages. A majority of the articles tackles topics in syntax and semantics; the rest is divided among topics in language acquisition, phonology, morphology, and sociolinguistics. Among the well-represented Romance languages examined are (Old) French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- On Null Objects in Old French
- Spanish Codas and Overapplication
- Verb Movement and its Effects on Determinerless Plural Subjects
- Expletive Auxiliaries
- On the Structure of Declarative Clauses
- N/A of a N DP's
- Thetic and Categorical, Attributive and Referential
- Negation and Independent Morphological Development
- Enclitic -n in Spanish
- Je veux que parte Paul
- Mood Phrase, Case Checking and Obviation
- Syllable Structure and Sonority Sequencing
- Condition on Feature Specification and Negative Lexicalization in Spanish
- Vestigial Trochees in Oil Dialects
- Definite/Zero Alternations in Portuguese
- On Object-Clitic Placement in Italian Child Language
- On Borrowing as a Mechanism of Syntactic Change
- Subject Positions and the Roles of CP
- Licensing DP-Internal Predication
- From Being to Having
- Pragmatic Transfer from Less Developed to More Developed Systems
- Object Shift in Old French
- Author index
- Language index
- Subject index
This volume contains selected papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL-27), which was held at the University of California, Irvine, on February 20-22, 1997. The 22 papers deal with current issues in linguistic theory as they can be illuminated by the close analysis and comparative study of Romance languages. A majority of the articles tackles topics in syntax and semantics; the rest is divided among topics in language acquisition, phonology, morphology, and sociolinguistics. Among the well-represented Romance languages examined are (Old) French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- On Null Objects in Old French
- Spanish Codas and Overapplication
- Verb Movement and its Effects on Determinerless Plural Subjects
- Expletive Auxiliaries
- On the Structure of Declarative Clauses
- N/A of a N DP's
- Thetic and Categorical, Attributive and Referential
- Negation and Independent Morphological Development
- Enclitic -n in Spanish
- Je veux que parte Paul
- Mood Phrase, Case Checking and Obviation
- Syllable Structure and Sonority Sequencing
- Condition on Feature Specification and Negative Lexicalization in Spanish
- Vestigial Trochees in Oil Dialects
- Definite/Zero Alternations in Portuguese
- On Object-Clitic Placement in Italian Child Language
- On Borrowing as a Mechanism of Syntactic Change
- Subject Positions and the Roles of CP
- Licensing DP-Internal Predication
- From Being to Having
- Pragmatic Transfer from Less Developed to More Developed Systems
- Object Shift in Old French
- Author index
- Language index
- Subject index