Romance languages and linguistic theory 2008 : selected papers from "Going Romance" Goningen 2008 / / edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema Brigitte Kampers-Manhe Bart Hollebrandse

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: x, 248 p
• Disciplina: 440
• Soggetto topico: Romance languages; Linguistics
• Altri autori: Bok-BennemaReineke <1946-> Kampers-ManheBrigitte HollebrandseBart
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2008 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- In support of a syntactic analysis of double agreement phenomena in Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. On the characterization of double agreement -- 3. The 'lighter' performative hypothesis -- 4. In search of aux 2: Causatives in other imperative expressions -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- The syntax of Spanish comparative correlatives -- 1. Introduction: Constructions and comparative correlatives -- 2. The internal structure of C1 and C2 -- 3. The macro-structure of Spanish CCs -- 4. A cartographic approach to CCs -- 5. Extension of the informational analysis to other adjunct clauses and conclusions -- References -- Functional vowels in main questions in Northern Italian dialects -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The distribution of preverbal vowels in main questions -- 3. The distribution of preverbal vowels in embedded questions -- 4. Previous analyses -- 5. The analysis: Functional vowels -- 6. Long preverbal vowels -- 7. Questions without subject-verb inversion -- 8. Comparative remarks and open issues -- 8.1 Deictic subject clitics -- 8.2 Veneto dialects and wh-questions -- 8.3 Cross-linguistic variation in wh-questions and yes-no questions -- 8.4 Paduan and constructions with left-peripheral constituents -- 9. Conclusions -- References -- Middle scrambling with deictic locatives in European Portuguese -- 1. Introduction: Scrambling in Portuguese and romance -- 2. Preverbal vs. postverbal lá -- 3. Lá-preposing as middle scrambling -- 4. Further empirical evidence: Restructuring and non-restructuring infinitives -- 5. Lá-preposing and negation -- 6. The syntactic locus of UT-T and speaker/utterance-anchored locatives -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Morphosyntactic variation in the temporal construals of non-root modals. ; 1. The temporal construals of non-root modals -- 1.1 The epistemic reading -- 1.2 The metaphysical reading -- 2. Crosslinguistic variation in the morphosyntax of non-root construals -- 2.1 The morphosyntax of epistemic construals -- 2.2 The morphosyntax of metaphysical construals -- 3. The temporal syntax of non root modals -- 4. The epistemic construal of presenttense + perfectaspect modals -- 5. English zero-past perfect modals: Epistemic vs. metaphysical construals -- 5.1 Present perspective about a past situation (epistemic reading) -- 5.2 Past perspective about a future in the past situation (metaphysical reading) -- 6. Past-Tense modals in Spanish and French: Epistemic vs. metaphysical construals -- 6.1 The metaphysical reading of past tense modals in French/Spanish -- 6.2 The epistemic reading of simple past tense modals in French/Spanish -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- On the realization of LF-Binding in some degree dependencies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background on degree constructions -- 2.1 Degrees and binding -- 2.2 Cross-linguistic variation -- 3. The analysis -- 3.1 Towards the local structure -- 3.2 Degree questions -- 3.3 Subcomparatives -- 4. Extensions and issues -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Some remarks on the evidential nature of the Romanian presumptive -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The Romanian presumptive -- 2. The presumptive - a strategy for indirect evidentiality -- 2.1 Conditional-based morphology -- 2.2 Inferential-based morphology -- 2.3 Future-based morphology -- 2.4 Subjunctive-based morphology -- 3. Indirect evidentials vs. other modals -- 3.1 Adverbial interactions -- 3.2 Subject placement -- 3.3 Conversational implicature vs. presupposition -- 4. Structure of indirect evidentials -- 4.1 Decomposing indirect evidentials -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Toward a syntactic reinterpretation of Harris &. ; Halle (2005) -- 1. Harris & -- Halle's approach -- 2. Subdistinctions among clitics -- 3. Clitic sequences -- 4. The status of plural -n -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- The puzzle of subjunctive tenses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The tense-aspect system of Spanish -- 2.1 The indicative paradigm -- 2.2 The subjunctive paradigm -- 2.3 Subjunctive tenses in root contexts -- 3. Subjunctive tenses in argument clauses -- 3.1 Temporal (dis-)harmony and its interpretation -- 3.2 Intensional subjunctives and future orientation -- 3.3 Subjunctive contexts and DAR-effects -- 4. Concluding remarks -- References -- Nounness, gender, class and syntactic structures in Italian nouns -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The data, the "final vowel" and a general hypothesis -- 3. The analysis -- 3.1 Significant complex vowels -- 3.2 Syntactic structures in Italian nouns -- 4. Towards a classification of Italian (nominal) roots -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- States and temporal interpretation in Capeverdean -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The empirical puzzle -- 2.1 Simple statements -- 2.2 Some complications -- 2.3 Prior approaches -- 3. Verbs and morphemes revisited -- 3.1 The verbs -- 3.2 Various combinations -- 4. Complex operations -- 4.1 Tense (-ba) and aspect (sata and ø) -- 4.2 Modal situations with ta -- 5. Where sabe and konxe are not stative bases -- 5.1 A crucial kind of state: consequent states -- 5.2 Interaction with point adverbials -- 5.3 Temporal results -- 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- Pluractional verbs that grammaticise number through the part-of relation -- 1. Verbal plurality -- 1.1 Generalities -- 1.2 Internal pluractionality -- 2. A semantic analysis -- 2.1 Parts and plurality -- 2.2 The number pattern -- 2.3 The conative reading -- 3. Aspectual considerations -- 3.1 (A)Telicity -- 3.2 Incrementality -- 3.3 Beyond arguments, to scales. ; 3.4 Against a condition on cardinality -- 3.5 Diminutive pluractionality and aspect -- 4. Concluding remarks -- References -- Language index -- Subject index -- The Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory series.
• Sommario/riassunto: This paper pursues an analysis of verbs like Italian mordicchiare (nibble) as event-internal pluractional verbs that denote composite single events where the predicate is distributed on the fragments of one entity, and grammaticise a local form of number through the part-of relation. This opens the possibility of reading number marking in aspectual terms, whereby fragmenting is a form of modification that perturbs the mapping between event and object.
• Titolo autorizzato: Romance languages and linguistic theory 2008
• ISBN: 1-282-89731-4; 9786612897313; 90-272-8761-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910140905703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II