Overview

This volume represents research on the structure of Romance languages as well as studies of languages which provide significant comparisons with Romance, such as English and Basque. It is inspired by Heles Contreras' contribution to linguistic theory, and to Romance linguistics in particular.

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Author:   Julia Herschensohn (University of Washington) ,  Enrique Mallén (Texas A&M University) ,  Karen Zagona (University of Washington)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   222
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9789027237309

ISBN 10:   9027237301
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   31 December 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. Seemingly Ergative and Ergatively Seeming (by Artiagoitia, Xabier); 3. On the Weight of Light Predicates (by Bosque, Ignacio); 4. On the Interpretation of Focus Features (by Camacho, Jose); 5. Dequeismo in Spanish and the Structure and Features of CP (by Demonte, Violeta); 6. Evaluative Suffixation in Spanish and the Syntax of Derivational Processes (by Eguren, Luis); 7. The Lower Operator Position with Parasitic Gaps (by Edmonds, Joseph); 8. NP Movement and Adjective Position in the DP Phases (by Gutierrez-Rexach, Javier); 9. Reflections on A Phonological Grammar of Spanish (by Harris, James); 10. The Long Fall: An intonational melody of Argentinian Spanish (by Kaisse, Ellen M.); 11. On the Position of Preposed PPs in English and Spanish (by Kempchinsky, Paula); 12. The Morphologization and Grammaticalization of French Liaison (by Klausenburger, Jurgen); 13. Determining the Acquisition of Determiners: On the innateness of functional categories (by Lleo, Conxita); 14. Sonority as a Primitive Phonological Feature: Evidence from Spanish complex onset phonotactics (by Martinez-Gil, Fernando); 15. Weak Subject Pronouns in Caribbean Spanish and XP Pied-Piping (by Ordonez, Francisco); 16. The Realization of Number in Italian and Spanish (by Saltarelli, Mario); 17. Discourse Topic Constraints on Left Dislocated Subjects and CLLD Structures (by Sanchez, Liliana); 18. The Puzzle of Restrictive Relative Clauses with Conjoined DP Antecedents (by Suner, Margarita); 19. Definite Determiners in French and Spanish: Features and extraction (by Tellier, Christine); 20. Subject Index; 21. Name Index

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