Date: 01-Dec-2006 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004: Doetjes (Ed), González (Tr)
Title: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004
Subtitle: Selected papers from 'Going Romance', Leiden, 9–11 December 2004
Series Title: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 278
Published: 2006
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Jenny Doetjes
Editor: Paz González
Hardback: ISBN: 9027247935 Pages: 320 Price: U.S. $ 144.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027247935 Pages: 320 Price: Europe EURO 120.00
Abstract:
This volume brings together a selection of papers from the eighteenth 'Going Romance' symposium, held at Leiden University, 9-11 December 2004. These papers cover a broad range of topics in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, and acquisition, in a variety of Romance languages.
Table of contents
Introduction v-vi Cualquier, Exception Phrases and Negation Ana Arregui 1-22 Agreement and Predicate Inversion in Spanish DP Anna Bartra and Xavier Villalba 23-41 Modes of Semantic Combinations: NP / DP. Adjectives and the Structure of the Romanian DP Alexandra Cornilescu 43-69 Where did Romance N-Raising come from? A Parallel Study of Parameter Resetting in Latin and English Paola Crisma and Chiara Gianollo 71-93 Null Complement Anaphora in Romance: Deep Or Surface Anaphora? Sonia Cyrino and Gabriela Matos 95-120 Benefactives aren't Goals in Italian Raffaella Folli and Heidi Harley 121-142 T-to-C Movement in Relative Clauses Ángel J. Gallego 143-170 Properties of Infinitival Structures in Romance Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Ricardo Etxepare 171-196 Emphatic Affirmation and Polarity: Contrasting European Portuguese With Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan and Galician Ana Maria Martins 197-223 Language Variation and Historical Change: The Spread of DOM in Spanish Yukiko Morimoto and Peter de Swart 225-245 Special Interrogatives — Left Periphery, Wh-Doubling, and (Apparently) Optional Elements Hans-Georg Obenauer 247-273 Double Agreement in Complex Inversion Erik Schoorlemmer 275-295 Subextraction in Romance Interrogatives Jaume Solà and Anna Gavarró 297-315 Index 317-320
Linguistic Field(s):
Historical Linguistics
Morphology
Phonology
Semantics
Syntax