LINGUIST List 12.1752

Fri Jul 6 2001

Qs: Verb Second/Romance Lgs, Squamish/Follow-up Q

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Bruno Oliveira Maroneze, Verb Second in Romance Languages
2. Ljuba Veselinova, Squamish answers to copula constructions questionnaire

Dear linguists:

	I am looking for references on Verb Second phenomenon in
medieval (and modern) Romance Languages, in special Portuguese. I am
particularly interested in analyses based on the OT framework.

	I wish to know if all Romance languages had the Verb-Second
constraint, and if there is any modern Romance Language which has
conserved it; it seems that some Rheto-Romance varieties have, is it
true?
	I will be glad to post a summary if there are enough responses.

Best regards,

Bruno Maroneze
S�o Paulo - Brazil

Dear All,

A few weeks ago I posted a URL to a copula constructions
questionnaire. Somebody filled it in for Squamish this past Friday,
June 22 but did not leave their email address. They did say, however,
that I can contact them if I had further questions so I think the
email was left out by mistake. First, I would like to thank this
person for very detailed answers which I wouldn't have been able to
get from the available Squamish grammar. I would very much like to
talk to him/her some more about Squamish.

All the very best,
Ljuba


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Ljuba Veselinova
Dept. of Linguistics	 Email: ljubaling.su.se
Stockholm University	 Phone: +46-8-16 2667/cell 0708-31 99 04
S-106 91 Stockholm	 Fax : +46-8-15 5389
Sweden			 URL : http://bamse.ling.su.se/~ljuba/index.shtml
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