1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460988903321

Titolo

Romance languages and linguistic theory 2013 : selected papers from "Going Romance" Amsterdam 2013 / / edited by Enoch O. Aboh ; Jeannette C. Schaeffer ; Petra Sleeman, University of Amsterdam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

90-272-6781-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, , 1574-552X ; ; volume 8

Disciplina

440/.045

Soggetti

Romance languages

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Part I Word order and related pragmatic or semantic effects; Introduction; Word order and related pragmatic or semantic effects; Morphology and semantics of the verb and verb placement; Morphosyntax of the DP and its relation to clause structure; Focus fronting and its implicatures; 1. Introduction: The trigger of Focus Fronting; 2. The syntactic experiment: Distributional evidence; 2.1 Corrective, mirative and merely contrastive contexts; 2.2 The experimental results

3. The prosodic experiment: Intonational evidence4. Characterizing the mirative and the corrective import; 4.1 The corrective import; 4.2 The mirative import; 5. The syntax of focus-associated implicatures; 5.1 Conventional implicatures; 5.2 Layers of interpretation; 5.3 A cartographic implementation; 6. Conclusions; References; Romance causatives and object shift; 1. Introduction; 2. The data; 2.1 Romanian; 2.2 Spanish; 3. Romance object shift in causatives and DOM; 4. Conclusions; References; Conditionally interpreted declaratives in Spanish; 1. Introduction; 2. Main properties

Different effects of syntactic knowledge, associative memory and working memory in L2 processing of filler-gap dependencies1.



Introduction: FGD processing in first and second languages; 2. What "memory" means in a second language; 3. Rationale of the study: The antecedent-priming effect in FGD; 4. Previous studies on FGD processing; 5. Our study; 5.1 Participants; 5.2 Working Memory and Associative Memory tests; 5.3 Materials; 5.4 Procedure; 5.5 Design and Results; 5.5.1 Accuracy; 5.5.2 Reaction time; 6. Discussion and conclusion; References