Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:44:32 +0000 From: paul <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Current Issues in Romance Languages
Title: Current Issues in Romance Languages
Subtitle: Selected papers from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on
Romance Languages (LSRL), Ann Arbor, 8-11 April 1999
Series Title: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Diana Cresti
Editor: Teresa Satterfield
Editor: Christina M. Tortora
This book presents an enlightening collection of papers contributing
to theoretical discussions across many topics within the study of
Romance Languages and Linguistics. The work originates from the 29th
Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held in 1999 at the
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, although only a small subpart of the
proceedings papers are included in this volume. The selected papers
have been reworked for the current publication.
Table of Contents
Preface ix
On Becoming a Clitic
Nancy Mae Antrim 1
Primary Stress in Spanish
Zsuzsanna B�rk�nyi 17
Spanish Clauses without Complementizers
Claudia Brovetto 33
On the Nature of Bare Nouns in Haitian Creole
Viviane D�prez 47
Towards a Syntax of Adult Root Infinitives
Ricardo Etxepare and Kleanthes K. Grohmann 67
Re-examining Spanish "Resyllabification"
Timothy L. Face 81
On Preverbal Subjects in Spanish
Grant Goodall 95
The Semantics of Spanish Free Relatives
Javier Guti�rrez-Rexach 111
Split Subject Pronoun Paradigms: Feature Geometry and
Underspecification
David J. Heap 129
Locative Inversion, PP Topicalization and the EPP
Paula Kempchinsky 145
Contrast Maintenance and Intervocalic Stop Lenition in Spanish and
Portuguese: When is It Alright to Lenite?
Anthony M. Lewis 160
Epenthesis vs. Elision in Afro-Iberian Language: A Constraint-based
Approach to Creole Phonology
John M. Lipski 173
Contrastive Discourse Markers in Spanish: Beyond Contrast
Monica Malamud Makowski 189
Coda Obstruents and Local Constraint Conjunction in North-Central
Peninsular Spanish
Richard E. Morris 207
Bare Nouns and the Morphosyntax of Number
Alan Munn and Cristina Schmitt 225
Non-Logical if
Josep Quer 241
Selecting Atomic Cells from Temporal Domains: Fixing Parameters in
Romance
Joan Rafel 255
Non Homorganic Nasal Clusters in Northern Italian Dialects
Lori Repetti 271
Romanian Nominal Structure, Proforms, and Genitive Case Checking
Edward J. Rubin 287
Adjectival Agreement within DP without Feature Movement
Petra Sleeman 301
A Constraint-Based Analysis of Intraspeaker Variation: Vocalic
Epenthesis in Vimeu Picard
Jeffrey Steele and Julie Auger 317
Aspects in the Prepositional System of Romance
Esther Torrego 337
A Unified Analysis of French and Italian en / ne
Dieter Vermandere 359
Variation in Spanish Aspiration and Prosodic Boundary Constraints
Caroline R. Wiltshire 375
General index 391
Lingfield(s): Linguistic Theories
Language Family(ies): Romance (Subgroup Code: IEJAAA)
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)
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