Full Description
The 20 papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 34th LSRL, held in Salt Lake City, in 2004. The papers deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in Romance Linguistics and include several from the conference parasession, which focused on experimental approaches to problems in Romance Linguistics. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in current issues in theoretical Romance Linguistics.
Contents
1. Preface; 2. Determiner Sharing and Cyclicity in Wh-Movement (by Arregi, Karlos); 3. The Acquisition of Object Clitic Constructions in Romanian (by Babyonyshev, Maria); 4. Systemic Markedness And Phonetic Detail In Phonology (by Bradley, Travis G.); 5. Quantifying Rhythmic Differences Between Spanish, English, and Hispanic English (by Carter, Phillip M.); 6. Phonetically-Driven Epenthesis Asymmetries In French and Spanish Obstruent-Liquid Clusters (by Colantoni, Laura); 7. Agree, the EPP-F and Further-raising in Spanish (by Fernandez-Salgueiro, Gerardo); 8. Diminutives In Brazilian Portuguese and Output-Output Correspondence (by Ferreira, Marcelo); 9. Children's Production and Comprehension of Spanish Grammatical Aspect (by Hodgson, Miren); 10. Morpheme Realization and Morphological Coalescence: Evidence from Romanian (by Iscrulescu, Cristian); 11. Complex Nuclei in Articulatory Phonology: The Case of Romanian Diphthongs (by Marin, Stefania); 12. Phonetic Cues to Special Cases of Liaison: Looking for a Prosodic Domain (by Miller, Jessica); 13. Licit and Illicit Null Objects in L1 French (by Pirvulescu, Mihaela); 14. Sluicing With Copula (by Saez, Luis); 15. Bare nominals in Papiamentu and Brazilian Portuguese: an Exo-skeletal Approach (by Schmitt, Cristina); 16. Raddoppiamento sintattico (RS) and Word-medial Gemination in Italian: Are They The Same or Are They Different? The Evidence from Spontaneous Speech (by Stevens, Mary); 17. Romanian N-Words And The Finite/Non-Finite Distinction (by Teodorescu, Alexandra); 18. Perseverative Phonetic Effects in Bilingual Code-Switching (by Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline); 19. The preposition's preposition in Italian: Evidence For Boundedness of Space (by Tortora, Christina); 20. The Yo-Yo Effect: Priming in Subject Expression in Colombian Spanish (by Travis, Catherine E.); 21. Tonal levels in Puebla Mexico Spanish Declaratives and Absolute Interrogatives (by Willis, Erik W.); 22. Index
