Overview

This volume presents current research in the formal treatment of linguistic phenomena in the Romance languages. It focuses on a variety of issues in phonology, second language acquisition, semantics, and syntax. Topics in phonological theory include the analysis of geminates, assimilation, rhotics, aspiration, syllabification, the interaction of phonology with morphology, the phonology-phonetics interface, and issues of transderivation and allomorphy selection. The primary question addressed in the area of second language acquisition theory is the issue of learners' access to Universal Grammar. The studies in semantic theory examine the proper analysis of indefinites, bare plurals, and specificity, with a particular emphasis on the syntax-semantics interface. Finally, the essays on syntactic theory discuss issues pertaining to argument structure, functional projections, phrase structure and adjunction, feature checking, and the syntactic representation of tense.

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Author:   Jean-Marc Authier (The Pennsylvania State University) ,  Barbara E. Bullock (The Pennsylvania State University) ,  Lisa A. Reed (The Pennsylvania State University) ,  Lisa A. Reed (all Pennsylvania State University, US)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   185
Weight:   0.760kg
ISBN:  

9789027236913

ISBN 10:   9027236917
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   15 July 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgments; 2. List of Contributors; 3. Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics (by Authier, Jean-Marc); 4. Object Bare Plurals in Spanish and the Semantics of Personal a (by Bleam, Tonia); 5. Case Feature Checking and its Consequences: Evidence from en-cliticization in French (by Boivin, Marie Claude); 6. Assibilation in Ecuadorian Spanish: A phonology-phonetics account (by Bradley, Travis G.); 7. How Similar are Conjuncts?: Against asymmetric conjunction (by Camacho, Jose); 8. Deriving Heavy NP-Shift in French (by Wind, J. Maarten de); 9. The Presuppositionality Condition and Spanish Clitic-Doubled Objects (by Franco, Jon A.); 10. Positional Faithfulness versus Cue Preservation: The case of nasal sequence resolution in Gallo-Romance (by Gess, Randall); 11. Passives and Arbitrary Plural Subjects in Spanish (by Goodall, Grant); 12. Spanish Indefinites and Type-Driven Interpretation (by Gutierrez-Rexach, Javier); 13. Minimalist Access to UG in L2 French (by Herschensohn, Julia); 14. Conflictual Agreement in Romance Nominals (by Hulk, Aafke); 15. Resyllabification Precedes all Segmental Rules: Evidence from Argentinian Spanish (by Kaisse, Ellen M.); 16. Objects and the Structure of Imperatives (by Pirvulescu, Mihaela); 17. Null Objects and D0 Features in Contact Spanish (by Sanchez, Liliana); 18. Lexical Conservatism in French Adjectival Liaison (by Steriade, Donca); 19. Optional Schwa Deletion: On syllable economy in French (by Tranel, Bernard); 20. Geminates and Clusters in Italian and Piedmontese: A case for OT ranking (by Wiltshire, Caroline R.); 21. Structural Case and Tense Construal (by Zagona, Karen); 22. Index of Terms & Concepts

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[...] a welcome sampler of eighteen innovative contributions to the formal study of Romance [...] -- Luis Alonso-Ovalle, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

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