Full Description
The current volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 45th meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 45), which took place from May 6 to 9, 2015 at the University of Campinas, Brazil. A volume of selected papers, such as this one, will ultimately be successful contingent upon the success of the event itself, which proved a strong commitment to theoretical and empirical rigor to the studies in Romance linguistics. All the chapters in this volume are high-quality papers on the state-of-the-art in linguistic research into Romance languages. The studies offer a variety of topics on the syntax, phonology, semantics-pragmatics, L2 acquisition and contact situations of Romance languages (Peninsular and American Spanish; European, Brazilian and African Portuguese; French; Italian), Romance dialects (Borgomanerese) and Romance-based creoles (Palenquero).
Contents
1. Foreword; 2. Chapter 1. Modality, presupposition and discourse: The meaning of European Portuguese afinal and Italian alla fine (by Amaral, Patricia); 3. Chapter 2. Exempt Anaphors and Logophoricity in French (by Charnavel, Isabelle); 4. Chapter 3. What's up with dative experiencers? (by Fabregas, Antonio); 5. Chapter 4. Aktionsart and event modification in Spanish adjectival passives (by Garcia-Pardo, Alfredo); 6. Chapter 5. Revising the Canon: Social and Stylistic Variation of Coda (-r) in Buenos Aires Spanish (by Gilbert, Madeline B.); 7. Chapter 6. Hiatus resolution in L1 and L2 Spanish: An optimality account (by Gonzalez, Carolina); 8. Chapter 7. Recursion in Brazilian Portuguese complex compounds (by Guzzo, Natalia Brambatti); 9. Chapter 8. Locality constraints on theta-theory: Evidence from Spanish ditransitives (by Kaminszczik, Sonia); 10. Chapter 9. Does gender agreement carry a production cost?: Spanish gender vs. Palenquero (by Lipski, John M.); 11. Chapter 10. TP ellipsis with polarity particles (by Matos, Gabriela); 12. Chapter 11. Circumventing phi-minimality: On some unorthodox cases of A-movement in Brazilian Portuguese (by Nunes, Jairo); 13. Chapter 12. Epistemic uses of the verb decir in La Paz Spanish: Digamos and dice (by Quartararo, Geraldine); 14. Chapter 13. Oral Portuguese in Maputo from a diachronic perspective - diffusion of linguistic innovations in a language shift scenario (by Reite, Torun); 15. Chapter 14. Structural approaches to code-switching: Research then and now (by Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline); 16. Chapter 15. When a piece of phonology becomes a piece of syntax: The case of subject clitics (by Tortora, Christina); 17. Chapter 16. Presence of the Voiced Labiodental Fricative Segment [v] in Texas Spanish (by Trovato, Adriano)
