Romance linguistics 2006 : selected papers from the 36th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRF) : New Brunswick, March-April 2006 / / edited by Maria Jose Cabrera ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821533803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, 2007
• ISBN: 1-282-15250-5; 9786612152504; 90-272-9184-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 340 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; v. 287
• Classificazione: 18.22
• Altri autori (Persone): CabreraMaria Jose
• Disciplina: 440
• Soggetti: Romance languages; Romance philology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Romance Linguistics 2006 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Preface -- Table of contents -- PARENTHETICAL NULL TOPIC CONSTRUCTIONS IN ROMANCE -- SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF SPLIT QUESTIONS -- DISCONTINUOUS WH-CONSTITUENTS IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE -- INTERPRETIVE DEFICIT? -- SUBJECTS AND WH-QUESTIONS. -- RHYTHMIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF SCHWA IN FRENCH -- INVESTIGATING PHRASING LEVELS IN FRENCH -- EXPLETIVES, NUMBER AND LANGUAGE CHANGE -- PERFORMATIVE VERBS IN SPANISH MONOLINGUAL AND BILINGUAL COLONIAL COURT DOCUMENTS -- NEGATIVE CONCORD AND DOUBLE NEGATION -- SUB-EXTRACTION FROM SUBJECTS -- INVERSION IN WH-QUESTIONS IN CHILD ROMANCEAND CHILD ENGLISH -- DEVIANCE IN EARLY CHILD BILINGUALISM -- TOPICALIZATION IN EUROPEAN ANDBRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE -- A VARIATION STUDY OF VERB TYPES AND SUBJECT POSITION -- MACRO EVENTS AND 'ASPECT SHIFT' IN SPANISH -- ONLINE PROCESSING OF GENDER AGREEMENTIN LOW PROFICIENT ENGLISH-SPANISH LATE BILINGUALS -- CHALLENGING THE PERSON CASE CONSTRAINT -- AGREE AND EXISTENTIAL CONSTRUCTIONS -- BASIC MELODIC CONTOURS IN MAJORCAN CATALAN. -- PERCEPTUAL ; PROPERTIES OF PALATALIZATION IN ROMANIAN -- A COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS OF MANNER-OF-MOTION VERBS IN ITALIAN -- INDEX OF TERMS &amp -- CONCEPTS -- The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume presents selected papers from the 36th LSRL conference held at Rutgers University in 2006. It contains twenty-two articles of current approaches to the study of Romance linguistics. Well-known researchers present their findings in areas such as of syntax and semantics, phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics. The volume contains scholarly research in areas such as parenthetical null topic construction, expletives, number and language change, performative verbs in colonial court Spanish, aspect shift, palatilization in Romanian, melodic contours in Majorcan Catalan, variation