Full Description
This collection brings together current research on a range of phenomena in French, Spanish, Occitan and Italian, that will be of interest to scholars and students of Romance and general linguistics. The volume includes 12 peer-reviewed articles, first presented at the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), divided into three sections on syntax-semantics, morphosyntax, and bilingualism and language acquisition.
Contents
1. Introduction (by Perpinan, Silvia); 2. Part I. Syntax-Semantics; 3. Chapter 1. Embedding Verbs and Subjunctive Mood: The Emotive Factor (by Baunaz, Lena); 4. Chapter 2. Towards a Unified Treatment of Spanish Copulas (by Arche, Maria J.); 5. Chapter 3. How French Sheds New Light on Scalar Particles (by Charnavel, Isabelle); 6. Pluralities of Events: Semelfactives and a case of 'single event' nominalisation (by Donazzan, Marta); 7. Part II. Morphosyntax; 8. Chapter 5. Laismo and "le-for-les": To Agree or not to Agree (by Ausin, Adolfo); 9. Chapter 6. The Morphological Markedness of phi: Evidence from Perfective Auxiliaries in Southern Italian Dialects (by Torcolacci, Giuseppe); 10. Chapter 7. Partial Subject Paradigms and Feature Geometry in Northern Occitan dialects (by Olivieri, Michele); 11. Chapter 8. Automatic Detection of Syntactic Patterns from Texts with Application to Spanish Clitic Doubling (by Estigarribia, Bruno); 12. Part III. Bilingualism and Language Acquisition; 13. Chapter 9. Voice Quality Transfer in the Production of Spanish Heritage Speakers and English L2 Learners of Spanish (by Kim, Ji Young); 14. Chapter 10. Null Subjects in the Early Acquisition of English by Child Heritage (by Austin, Jennifer R.); 15. Chapter 11. Return to Frenchville: Tracing a Near-merger from Legacy Data (by Bullock, Barbara E.); 16. Chapter 12. The Processing of Intrasentential Anaphoric Subject Pronouns in L2 Spanish (by Cominguez, Juan P.)
