Overview

This volume presents recent theoretical research on Romance languages, selected from papers presented at the 25th Linguistics Symposium of Romance Languages held in Seattle in March 1995. It includes studies of individual Romance languages as well as comparative studies - both within the Romance family and with non-Romance languages such as Basque, Bulgarian, Germanic and Quechua.

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Author:   Karen Zagona (University of Washington)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   133
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9789027236371

ISBN 10:   9027236372
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   01 March 1996
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Participial clauses in Bulgarian, Italian and Spanish: Argument structure, agreement and case (by Alexandrova, Galina M.); 2. Edge effects and unstressed syllables in Spanish (by Bailey, Todd M.); 3. The ambiguity of the Italian present perfect (by Brugger, Gerhard); 4. The distribution of a and de in tough constructions in French (by Canac Marquis, Rejean); 5. Prominence vs. Rhythm: The Preditability of stress in Romanian (by Chitoran, Ioana); 6. On the configurational nature of adjectival modification (by Crisma, Paola); 7. On the configurations and reference: SE/SI in Romance (by Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen); 8. The scope of universal quantifiers in Spanish interrogatives (by Gutierrez-Rexach, Javier); 9. The syntax and morphology of class marker suppression in Spanish (by Harris, James); 10. The prosodic environment of S-Weakening in Argentinian Spanish (by Kaisse, Ellen M.); 11. Pefective auxiliaries, possession and existence in Romance (by Kempchinsky, Paula); 12. Gender agreement and suppletion in French (by Lamarche, Jacques); 13. Two issues in null objects in Basque Spanish: morphological decoding and grammatical permeability (by Landa, Alazne); 14. Attributive and predicative adjective agreement in Germanic and Romance & pro identification (by Mallen, Enrique); 15. Clitic-doubled dative subjects in Spanish (by Montrul, Silvina A.); 16. The absence or presence of a declination effect on the descent of F0 peaks? Evidence from Mexican Spanish (by Prieto, Pilar); 17. Word order, predication and agreement in DPs in Spanish, Southern Quechua and southern andean bilingual Spanish (by Sanchez, Liliana); 18. Clitic Omission and participle agreement in Italian child language (by Schaeffer, Jeannette); 19. French syllable structure: reconsidering the status of the onset (by Silva-Villar, Luis); 20. Two types of unaccusatives: evidence from a northern Italian dialect (by Tortora, Christina); 21. An expletive negation which is not so redundant (by Tovena, Lucia M.); 22. Exceptionality in optimality theory and final consonants in French (by Tranel, Bernard); 23. The nature of the subjunctive and the fromal grammar of oviation (by Tsoulas, George); 24. Subjunctive of neagation and [Neg(ative)] complementizers (by Uribe-Etxebarria, Myriam); 25. Index of authors; 26. Index of terms & concepts; 27. Index of languages & Language families

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