Part of the set: Montreuil, Jean-Pierre Y. and Chiyo Nishida (eds.), New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. I: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics; Vol. II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology. 2 Vols. set. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005.

This is the first of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote address delivered by Denis Bouchard on exaptation and linguistic explanation, as well as seventeen contributions by emerging and internationally recognized scholars of Spanish, French, Italian, as well as Rumanian. While the emphasis bears on formal analyses, the coverage is remarkably broad, as topics range from morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and language acquisition. Each article seeks to represent a new perspective on these topics and a variety of frameworks and concepts are exploited: distributive morphology, entailment theory, grammaticalization, information structure, left-periphery, polarity lattice, spatial individuation, thematic hierarchy, etc. This volume will challenge anyone interested in current issues in theoretical Romance Linguistics.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements Introduction A Polarity-Sensitive Disjunction: Spanish ni … ni Raúl Aranovich 1 Taking a Closer Look at Romance VN Compounds Reineke Bok-Bennema and Brigitte Kampers-Manhe 13 Beyond Descriptivism: Exaptation and Linguistic Explanation Denis Bouchard 27 Do Subjects Have a Place in Spanish? José Camacho 51 On the Conceptual Role of Number Viviane Déprez 67 The Diachronic Development of a French Indefinite Pronoun: Comparing Chacun to Auncun Amanda Edmonds 83 A Syntactic Analysis of Italian Deverbal-Nouns Franca Ferrari-Bridgers 97 V-N Compounds In Italian: A Case Of Agreement in Word Formation Martina Gracanin-Yuksek 113 A Reinterpretation of Quirky Subjects and Related Phenomena in Spanish Rodrigo Gutièrrez-Bravo 127 Cognitive Constraints on Assertion Scope: The Case of Spoken French Parce que Knud Lambrecht, Julia Bordeaux and Robert Reichle 143 Avant que- or Avant de-Clauses: When Presupposition Gives Way to an 'Assertive Construction' Anne Le Draoulec 155 Null Directional Prepositions in Romanian and Spanish Jonathan E. MacDonald 69 A Unified Account for the Additive and the Scalar Uses of Italian Neppure Alda Mari and Lucia M. Tovena 187 Default Morphology in Second Language Spanish: Missing Inflection or Underspecified Inflection? Corrine McCarthy 201 Early Object Omission in Child French and English Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux, Mihaela Pirvulescu and Yves Roberge 213 Agreement Paradigms Across Moods and Tenses Mihaela Pirvulescu 229 Italian Volerci: Lexical Verb or Functional Head? Cinzia Russi 247 Restructuring of Reverse Psychological Predicate Almeida Jacqueline Toribio and Carlos Nye 263 Subject Index 279