Theoretical and experimental approaches to Romance linguistics : selected papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Salt Lake City, March 2004 / / edited by Randall S. Gess, Edward Rudin

• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, PA, : John Benjamins, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 367 p
• Disciplina: 440
• Soggetto topico: Romance languages
• Altri autori: GessRandall Scott <1963-> RubinEdward J
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES TO ROMANCE LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- DETERMINER SHARING AND CYCLICITY INWH-MOVEMENT! -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gapping and Determiner Sharing -- 3. Determiner Sharing in Questions -- 4. Cyclicity in Wh-movement -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE ACQUISITION OF OBJECT CLITIC CONSTRUCTIONS IN ROMANIAN -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Description of the Object Clitic Constructions -- 3. Language Acquisition Background -- 4. Explaining Cross-linguistic Variation in Clitic Acquisition Patterns -- 5. Present Study -- 6. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- SYSTEMIC MARKEDNESS AND PHONETIC DETAIL IN PHONOLOGY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rhotic neutralization and external sandhi deletion in Cantabrian Spanish -- 3. Dispersion Theory and the Spanish rhotic contrast -- 4. Spanish clusters and Cantabrian external sandhi -- 5. Gestures, segments, and systemic markedness in the phonology -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- QUANTIFYING RHYTHMIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SPANISH, ENGLISH, AND HISPANIC ENGLISH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical Background -- 3. PVI Methodology -- 4. Results -- 5. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- PHONETICALLY-DRIVEN EPENTHESIS ASYMMETRIES IN FRENCH AND SPANISH OBSTRUENT-LIQUID CLUSTERS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Obstruent-liquid clusters in French and Spanish -- 3. The dissimilation hypothesis -- 4. Current study -- 5. Results -- 6. Analysis and discussion -- 7. Conclusions -- APPENDIX -- REFERENCES -- AGREE, THE EPP-F AND FURTHER-RAISING IN SPANISH -- 1. Conceptual problems for Agree as in Chomsky 2000 -- 2. Proposal: a different timing for Agree and "second-Merge" -- 3. Further-raising in Spanish -- 4. Allowing for Further-raising -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- DIMINUTIVES IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE AND OUTPUT-OUTPUT CORRESPONDENCE -- 1. Introduction. ; 2. BP diminutives and plurals -- 3. Are -inho/a and -zinho/a suffixes? -- 4. Output-Output correspondence and diminutives in BP -- 5. Expanding the analysis -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- CHILDREN'S PRODUCTION AND COMPREHENSION OF SPANISH GRAMMATICAL ASPECT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background on Aspectual Meaning -- 3. Acquisition Background -- 4. Experimental Design -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- MORPHEME REALIZATION AND MORPHOLOGICAL COALESCENCE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. MP correspondence -- 4. Morphological coalescence in definite masculine and neuters in Romanian -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- COMPLEX NUCLEI IN ARTICULATORY PHONOLOGY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The phonological status of Romanian diphthongs ea - oa -- 3. An acoustic study on alternating/non-alternating [e] in Romanian -- 4. Articulatory Phonology and Romanian ea vs. ja -- 5. Conclusion -- APPENDIX -- REFERENCES -- PHONETIC CUES TO SPECIAL CASES OF LIAISON -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Formal representations of Liaison consonants -- 3. A special case: Liaison sans enchaînement -- 4. Looking for a prosodic domain -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- LICIT AND ILLICIT NULL OBJECTS IN L1 FRENCH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A grammar of null objects in adult speech -- 3. The L1 acquisition perspective -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- SLUICING WITH COPULA -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Spanish SwCop derives from a cleft -- 3. The Left Periphery of SwCop in Spanish -- 4. Spanish SwCop shows true Sluicing (TP-deletion) -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- BARE NOMINALS IN PAPIAMENTU AND BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The basic patterns and the problems for previous bare nominal analyses -- 3. The exo-skeletal approach (Borer 2004) -- 4. Bare singulars -- 5. Bare plurals -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES. ; RADDOPPIAMENTO SINTATTICO (RS) AND WORD-MEDIAL GEMINATION IN ITALIAN -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Raddoppiamento sintattico (RS) and word-medial gemination -- 3. Background -- 4. Aims -- 5. Methods -- 6. Discussion -- REFERENCES -- ROMANIAN N-WORDS AND THE FINITE/NON-FINITE DISTINCTION -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The distribution of Romanian n-words -- 3. Deriving the behavior of Romanian n-words -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- PERSEVERATIVE PHONETIC EFFECTS IN BILINGUAL CODE-SWITCHING -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The present study -- 3. Results and discussion -- REFERENCES -- THE PREPOSITION'S PREPOSITION IN ITALIAN -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Adverbial and Grammatical Prepositions -- 3. Presence vs. absence of a -- 4. Spatial (un)boundedness -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE YO-YO EFFECT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Structural priming -- 3. Data -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Results -- 5. Conclusions -- APPENDIX -- REFERENCES -- TONAL LEVELS IN PUEBLA MEXICO SPANISH DECLARATIVES AND ABSOLUTE INTERROGATIVES -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Procedure -- 3. Findings -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- APPENDIX -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF TERMS & -- CONCEPTS -- The series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.
• Sommario/riassunto: The 20 papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 34th LSRL, held in Salt Lake City, in 2004. The papers deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in Romance Linguistics and include several from the conference parasession, which focused on experimental approaches to problems in Romance Linguistics. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in current issues in theoretical Romance Linguistics.
• Titolo autorizzato: Theoretical and experimental approaches to Romance linguistics
• ISBN: 1-282-15634-9; 9786612156342; 90-272-9405-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811791103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. : Series IV, . -Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; v. 272.