John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002. — 412 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 220).
Selected papers from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ann Arbor, 8–11 April 1999This book presents an enlightening collection of papers contributing to theoretical discussions across many topics within the study of Romance Languages and Linguistics. The work originates from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held in 1999 at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, although only a small subpart of the proceedings papers are included in this volume.
On becoming a Clitic: The prenominal possessive in Romance - Nancy Mae Antrim
Primary stress in Spanish - Zsuzsanna Bárkányi
Spanish clauses without complementizer - Claudia Brovetto
On the nature of bare nouns in Haitian Creole - Viviane Déprez
Towards a syntax of adult Root Infinitives - Ricardo Etxepare and Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Re-examining Spanish ‘resyllabification’ - Timothy L. Face
On preverbal subjects in Spanish - Grant Goodall
The semantics of Spanish free relatives - Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach
Split subject pronoun paradigms: Feature geometry and underspecification - David Heap
Locative inversion, PP topicalization and the EPP - Paula Kempchinsky
Contrast maintenance and intervocalic stop lenition in Spanish and Portuguese: When is it alright to lenite? - Anthony M. Lewis
Epenthesis vs. Elision in Afro-Iberian language: A constraint-based approach to Creole phonology - John M. Lipski
Contrastive discourse markers in Spanish: Beyond contrast - Monica Malamud Makowski
Coda obstruents and local constraint conjunction in north-central Peninsular Spanish - Richard E. Morris
Bare nouns and the morphosyntax of number - Alan Munn and Cristina Schmitt
Non-logical if - Josep Quer
Selecting atomic cells from temporal domains: Fixing parameters in Romance - Joan Rafel
Non-homorganic nasal clusters in northern Italian dialects - Lori Repetti
Romanian nominal structure, proforms, and genitive case checking - Edward J. Rubin
Adjectival agreement within DP without feature movement - Petra Sleeman
A constraint-based analysis of intraspeaker variation: Vocalic epenthesis in Vimeu Picard - Jeffrey Steele and Julie Auger
Aspect in the prepositional system of Romance - Esther Torrego
A unified analysis of French and Italian en / ne - Dieter Vermandere
Variation in Spanish aspiration and prosodic boundary constraints - Caroline R. Wiltshire