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The volumes Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.This volume assembles a significant number of selected papers that were presented at the 21st edition of Going Romance, which was organized by the Chair of Romance Linguistics of the University of Amsterdam in December 2007. The range of languages (both standard and non-standard varieties) analyzed in this volume is quite significant: Catalan, French, Italian, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish. The volume is quite representative of the spread of the variety of research carried out nowadays on Romance languages within theoretical linguistics and shows the vitality of this research.

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Author:   Enoch O. Aboh (University of Amsterdam) ,  Elisabeth van der Linden (University of Amsterdam) ,  Josep Quer (Pompeu Fabra University) ,  Petra Sleeman (University of Amsterdam)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.690kg
ISBN:  

9789027203816

ISBN 10:   9027203814
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   19 November 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Foreword; 2. Tense domains in BP and EP - vP, CP and phases (by Ambar, Manuela); 3. Variable-behavior Ps and the location of PATH in Old French (by Burnett, Heather); 4. Hebrew and Arabic children going Romance: On the acquisition of word order in Semitic and Romance (by Costa, Joao); 5. Adjectives and deleted nominals in Spanish (by Eguren, Luis); 6. On the nature of covert operations (by Fernandez-Soriano, Olga); 7. Ellipsis and Restructuring in European Portuguese (by Goncalves, Anabela); 8. The early steps of modal and negation interactions: Evidence from child Italian (by Gualmini, Andrea); 9. Structural patterns blocking plural in Romance nominalizations (by Iordachioaia, Gianina); 10. On the distribution of adjectives in Romanian: The cel construction (by Marchis, Michaela); 11. Subject doubling in European Portuguese dialects: The role of impersonal se (by Martins, Ana Maria); 12. On the Quebec French interrogative particle tu (by Morin, Annick); 13. Autonomous typological prosodic evolution versus the Germanic superstrate in diachronic French phonology (by Noske, Roland G.); 14. Dummy prepositions and the licensing of null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese (by Nunes, Jairo); 15. OV sequences in early child Catalan and English (by Tubau, Susagna); 16. Index

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