Morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910964256603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, c2006
• ISBN: 9786612155512; 9781282155510; 1282155512; 9789027293398; 9027293392
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 282 pages) : ill., maps
• Collana: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 275; New perspectives on Romance linguistics :selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005 ; ; v.1
• Altri autori (Persone): NishidaChiyo; MontreuilJean-Pierre
• Disciplina: 440
• Soggetti: Romance languages; Linguistics
• 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: New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- A POLARITY-SENSITIVE DISJUNCTION -- TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT ROMANCE VN COMPOUNDS -- BEYOND DESCRIPTIVISM -- DO SUBJECTS HAVE A PLACE IN SPANISH? -- ON THE CONCEPTUAL ROLE OF NUMBER -- THE DIACHRONIC DEVELOPMENT OF A FRENCH INDEFINITE PRONOUN -- A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF ITALIAN DE-VERBAL NOUNS -- V-N COMPOUNDS IN ITALIAN -- A REINTERPRETATION OF QUIRKY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA IN SPANISH -- COGNITIVE CONSTRAINTS ON ASSERTION SCOPE -- AVANT QUE- OR AVANT DE-CLAUSES -- NULL DIRECTIONAL PREPOSTIONS IN ROMANIAN AND SPANISH -- A UNIFIED ACCOUNT FOR THE ADDITIVE AND THE SCALAR USES OF ITALIAN NEPPURE -- DEFAULT MORPHOLOGY IN SECOND LANGUAGE SPANISH -- EARLY OBJECT OMISSION IN CHILD ; FRENCH AND ENGLISH -- AGREEMENT PARADIGMS ACROSS MOODS AND TENSES -- ITALIAN VOLERCI: LEXICAL VERB OR FUNCTIONAL HEAD? -- RESTRUCTURING OF REVERSE PSYCHOLOGICAL PREDICATES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.
• Sommario/riassunto: The target of investigation in the present study is the class of psychological predicates exemplified by gustar; this class demonstrates unique mapping properties that render it especially problematical and perplexing for English speakers acquiring Spanish as a second language and likewise vulnerable to alteration in contact and contracting varieties of Spanish. In the experiment reported herein, heritage Spanish speakers are shown to accept and produce particular non-target psychological predicate constructions. Their behavior is interpreted as revealing two 'optimization' strategies-Map the animate argument to the structural subject position and the inanimate argument to the structural object; and dedicate the preverbal position to the structural subject-which render the mapping more transparent.