Schwegler Armin et al. (Editors). Romance Linguistics: Theoretical Perspectives

John Benjamins, 1998. — viii, 349 pages. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 160). — ISBN: 90-272-3665-8 / 155619 876 0.This volume contains selected papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL-27), which was held at the University of California, Irvine, on February 20-22, 1997. The 22 papers deal with current issues in linguistic theory as they can be illuminated by the close analysis and comparative study of Romance languages. A majority of the articles tackles topics in syntax and semantics; the rest is divided among topics in language acquisition, phonology, morphology, and sociolinguistics. Among the well-represented Romance languages examined are (Old) French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.On Null Objects in Old French
Spanish Codas and Overapplication
Verb Movement and its Effects on Determinerless Plural Subjects
Expletive Auxiliaries
On the Structure of Declarative Clauses
N/A of a N DP’s: Predicate raising and subject licensing
Thetic and Categorical, Attributive and Referential: Towards an explanation of definiteness effects
Negation and Independent Morphological Development
Enclitic -nin Spanish
Je veux que parte Paul: A neglected construction
Mood Phrase, Case Checking and Obviation
Syllable Structure and Sonority Sequencing: Evidence from Emilian
Condition on Feature Specification and Negative Lexicalization in Spanish
Vestigial Trochees in Oil Dialects
Definite / Zero Alternations in Portuguese: Towards a unification of topic constructions
On Object-Clitic Placement in Italian Child Language
On Borrowing as a Mechanism of Syntactic Change
Subject Positions and the Roles of CP
Licensing DP-Internal Predication
From Being to Having: Questions about ontology from a Kayne / Szabolcsi syntax
Pragmatic Transfer from Less Developed to More Developed Systems: Spanish deictic terms in Barcelona
Object Shift in Old French