D'hulst Yves, Rooryck Johan, Schroten Jan (Eds.). Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 1999

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001. — 415 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 221).Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 1999, Leiden, 9–11 December 1999This volume brings together a selection of articles presented at 'Going Romance' 1999. The articles focus on current syntactic and semantic issues in various Romance languages, including Catalan, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and a number of Northern Italian dialects. A large number of articles focus on negation, which was the theme of the workshop at Going Romance 1999, but other topics investigated include Wh- in situ, free relatives, exclamatives, lexical decomposition and thematic structure, unaccusative inversion, and temporal existential constructions. Most articles are comparative in nature, relating the different syntactic and semantic properties of both Romance and non-Romance languages to principles of Universal Grammar. The theoretical frameworks adopted in the various articles are diverse, ranging from the Principles and Parameters framework to HPSG.On the nature of wh-phrases — word order and wh-in-situ. Evidence from Portuguese, French, Hungarian and Tetum - Manuela Ambar and Rita Veloso
Negative concord and the distribution of quantifiers - António Branco and Berthold Crysmann
Clause structure, subject positions and verb movement. About the position of sempre in European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese - Ana Maria Brito
On the multiple expression of negation in Romance - Francis Corblin and Lucia M. Tovena
Property denoting objects in idiomatic constructions - M. Teresa Espinal
On the relation of priority between causative and inchoative constructions - Raffaella Folli
Spanish exclamatives and the interpretation of the left periphery - Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach
Unaccusative inversion in French - Jean-Marie Marandin
Locative and locatum verbs revisited. Evidence from Romance - Jaume Mateu Fontanals
Negative concord and the minimalist approach - Gabriela Matos
Free relatives as defective wh-elements. Evidence from the North-Western Italian dialects - Nicola Munaro
Temporal existential constructions in Romance - Gemma Rigau
French ne in non-verbal contexts - Paul Rowlett
French negative sentences with avant (‘before’)-phrases and jusqu’à (‘until’)-phrases - Svetlana Vogeleer
Decomposing the neg-criterion - Akira Watanabe