Full Description
In 2011, the annual conference series Going Romance celebrated its 25th edition in Utrecht, the founder city of the enterprise. Since its inception in the eighties of the last century, the local initiative has developed into the major European discussion forum for research focussing on the contribution of (one of the) Romance languages to general linguistic theorizing as well as on the working out of in-depth analyses of Romance data within linguistic frameworks. The annual meeting took place on December, 8-10.The present volume is the 5th of the series Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory published by John Benjamins. We publish here a selected set of peer-reviewed articles bearing on topics in phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, that represent both issues of theoretical nature as well as developments in the field of acquisition. The articles are of great interest for specialists of Romance and for general linguists appreciating parameters and/or language acquisition. Among the contributions are three papers presented by invited speakers (Andrea Calabrese, Ricardo Etxepare and Jason Rothman), while two other very prominent Romance linguists figure as co-authors (Aafke Hulk, Luigi Rizzi).
Contents
1. Introduction; 2. A'-dependencies in French: A study in L1 acquisition (by Bentea, Anamaria); 3. The irregular forms of the Italian "Passato Remoto": A synchronic and diachronic analysis (by Calabrese, Andrea); 4. On the lack of stranded negated quantifiers and inverse scope of negation in Romance (by Cirillo, Robert); 5. Evidence for the competition-based analysis of subjunctive obviation from relative and adverbial clauses in Italian (by Costantini, Francesco); 6. Quotative expansions (by Etxepare, Ricardo); 7. Datives, prepositions, and argument structure in Spanish (by Fernandez-Alcalde, Hector); 8. A typology of agreement processes and its implications for language development (by Moscati, Vincenzo); 9. On the syntax of focalizers in some Italo-Romance dialects (by Munaro, Nicola); 10. The phonotactics of word-initial clusters in Romance: Typological and theoretical implications (by Passino, Diana); 11. Double object constructions in Spanish (and Catalan) revisited (by Pineda, Anna); 12. Cognitive economy, non-redundancy and typological primacy in L3 acquisition: Initial stages of L3 Romance and beyond (by Rothman, Jason); 13. L1 acquisition of noun ellipsis in French and in Dutch: Consequences for linguistic theory (by Sleeman, Petra); 14. Index
