Full Description
This volume contains a selection of papers of the 28th Going Romance conference, which was organized by the Linguistics centers of Universidade de Lisboa and Universidade Nova de Lisboa in December 2014. It assembles the invited contributions by Alain Rouveret, Guido Mensching, Luigi Rizzi, and Roberta D'Alessandro, and eleven peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the conference or at the workshops on Constituent Order Variation, Crosslinguistic Microvariation in Language Acquisition, and Subordination in Old Romance.
The volume covers a wide range of topics in syntax and its interfaces, and brings to current linguistic theorizing new empirical grounding from Romance languages (including standard, diachronic or regional varieties of Asturian, Brazilian and European Portuguese, Catalan, French, Galician, Italian, Romanian, Sardinian, and Spanish).
This will be of interest to scholars in Romance and in general linguistics.
Contents
1. Introduction (by Carrilho, Ernestina); 2. The obviation agreement effect (by Alcaraz, Alejo); 3. Pseudo-relatives and their left-periphery: A unified account (by Casalicchio, Jan); 4. Explicative clauses in Portuguese as a case of parentheses (by Colaco, Madalena); 5. When imperfections are perfect: Prosody, phi-features and deixis in Central and Southern Italian vocatives (by D'Alessandro, Roberta); 6. Why are distributive readings dispreferred? (by Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen); 7. Against deficiency-based typologies: Manner-alternation parameters in Italian and English (by Folli, Raffaella); 8. Case in Italian complex PPs (by Garzonio, Jacopo); 9. Yes/no interrogatives and focus in Sardinian (by Mensching, Guido); 10. In defense of defective intervention: Locality effects in Romance (by Marchis Moreno, Mihaela); 11. Focus and the syntacticization of discourse (by Poole, Geoffrey); 12. EPP and ECP revisited: The role of labeling (by Rizzi, Luigi); 13. Intervention or phasal locality?: Two ways of being local in French causative constructions (by Rouveret, Alain); 14. Person features and functional heads: Evidence from an exceptional optative sentence in Ibero-Romance (by Sanchez Lopez, Cristina); 15. Variation and change in the Romance faire-par causative (by Sheehan, Michelle); 16. The status of subject pronouns in Modern Standard French revisited (by Zimmermann, Michael); 17. Index
