
Current Issues in Romance Languages
Selected papers from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ann Arbor, 8-11 April 1999
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 31. May 2002
Book
Hardback
412 pages
978-1-58811-089-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents an enlightening collection of papers contributing to theoretical discussions across many topics within the study of Romance Languages and Linguistics. The work originates from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held in 1999 at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, although only a small subpart of the proceedings papers are included in this volume. The selected papers have been reworked for the current publication.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
640 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58811-089-3 (9781588110893)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Editor
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
Content
1. Preface; 2. On becoming a Clitic: The prenominal possessive in Romance (by Antrim, Nancy Mae); 3. Primary stress in Spanish (by Barkanyi, Zsuzsanna); 4. Spanish clauses without complementizer (by Brovetto, Claudia); 5. On the nature of bare nouns in Haitian Creole (by Deprez, Viviane); 6. Towards a syntax of adult Root Infinitives (by Etxepare, Ricardo); 7. Re-examining Spanish 'resyllabification' (by Face, Timothy L.); 8. On preverbal subjects in Spanish (by Goodall, Grant); 9. The semantics of Spanish free relatives (by Gutierrez-Rexach, Javier); 10. Split subject pronoun paradigms: Feature geometry and underspecification (by Heap, David); 11. Locative inversion, PP topicalization and the EPP (by Kempchinsky, Paula); 12. Contrast maintenance and intervocalic stop lenition in Spanish and Portuguese: When is it alright to lenite? (by Lewis, Anthony M.); 13. Epenthesis vs. Elision in Afro-Iberian language: A constraint-based approach to Creole phonology (by Lipski, John M.); 14. Contrastive discourse markers in Spanish: Beyond contrast (by Malamud Makowski, Monica); 15. Coda obstruents and local constraint conjunction in north-central Peninsular Spanish (by Morris, Richard E.); 16. Bare nouns and the morphosyntax of number (by Munn, Alan); 17. Non-logical if (by Quer, Josep); 18. Selecting atomic cells from temporal domains: Fixing parameters in Romance (by Rafel, Joan); 19. Non-homorganic nasal clusters in northern Italian dialects (by Repetti, Lori); 20. Romanian nominal structure, proforms, and genitive case checking (by Rubin, Edward J.); 21. Adjectival agreement within DP without feature movement (by Sleeman, Petra); 22. A constraint-based analysis of intraspeaker variation: Vocalic epenthesis in Vimeu Picard (by Steele, Jeffrey); 23. Aspect in the prepositional system of Romance (by Torrego, Esther); 24. A unified analysis of French and Italian en / ne (by Vermandere, Dieter); 25. Variation in Spanish aspiration and prosodic boundary constraints (by Wiltshire, Caroline R.); 26. General index