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benjamins.com>John Benjmains Publishing announces the publication of this new work in the Syntax and Semantics of Romance Languages: Semantic Issues in Romance Syntax. Esthela TREVINO and Jose LEMA (eds.) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 173 US & Canada: 1 55619 890 6 / USD 79.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 3679 8 / NLG 158.00 (Hardcover) All of the articles in this volume focus on the interaction of form and meaning. Most of them are developed under the principal thesis of the Minimalist Program. These works show that the theoretical linguistic trend is to discover semantic aspects which are assumed to have visible syntactic repercussions through morphosyntactic and morphosemantic features. Contributions: Infinitives vs. participles: Manuela Ambar; Without expletive placement?: Carlo Cecchetto; Verbal structures and variation: Anna-Maria Di Sciullo; French degree qualifiers and the syntax of mass and count: Jenny Doetjes; Neuter relatives and the degree operator: Javier Gutierrez Rexach; On the interpretations of Spanish n-words: Elena Herburger; What does zero syntax add to an analysis of French psych verbs?: Julia Herschensohn; The pronoun-determiner debate: Michael Allan Jones; A minimalist approach to compositionality of aspects: Sonia Maruenda & Margaret Salome; Configurational attitudes: Pierre Pica & Johan Rooryck; Information focus: Manuela Pinto; Relativized impersonality: Gemma Rigau; Quaint agreement and the theory of Spell-Out: Yves Roberge; Aktionsart and transitive phrases: Montserat Sanz; Determiner transparency: Cristina Schmitt: The post-verbal subject position of Italian unaccusative verbs: Christina M. Tortora. John Benjamins Publishing Co. Offices: Philadelphia Amsterdam: Websites: http://www.benjamins.com http://www.benjamins.nl E-mail: serviceMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
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