Full Description
This is the first of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote address delivered by Denis Bouchard on exaptation and linguistic explanation, as well as seventeen contributions by emerging and internationally recognized scholars of Spanish, French, Italian, as well as Rumanian. While the emphasis bears on formal analyses, the coverage is remarkably broad, as topics range from morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and language acquisition. Each article seeks to represent a new perspective on these topics and a variety of frameworks and concepts are exploited: distributive morphology, entailment theory, grammaticalization, information structure, left-periphery, polarity lattice, spatial individuation, thematic hierarchy, etc. This volume will challenge anyone interested in current issues in theoretical Romance Linguistics.
Contents
1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction; 3. A Polarity-Sensitive Disjunction: Spanish ni ... ni (by Aranovich, Raul); 4. Taking a Closer Look at Romance VN Compounds (by Bok-Bennema, Reineke); 5. Beyond Descriptivism: Exaptation and Linguistic Explanation (by Bouchard, Denis); 6. Do Subjects Have a Place in Spanish? (by Camacho, Jose); 7. On the Conceptual Role of Number (by Deprez, Viviane); 8. The Diachronic Development of a French Indefinite Pronoun: Comparing Chacun to Auncun (by Edmonds, Amanda); 9. A Syntactic Analysis of Italian Deverbal-Nouns (by Ferrari-Bridgers, Franca); 10. V-N Compounds In Italian: A Case Of Agreement in Word Formation (by Gracanin-Yuksek, Martina); 11. A Reinterpretation of Quirky Subjects and Related Phenomena in Spanish (by Gutierrez-Bravo, Rodrigo); 12. Cognitive Constraints on Assertion Scope: The Case of Spoken French Parce que (by Lambrecht, Knud); 13. Avant que- or Avant de-Clauses: When Presupposition Gives Way to an 'Assertive Construction' (by Draoulec, Anne Le); 14. Null Directional Prepositions in Romanian and Spanish (by MacDonald, Jonathan E.); 15. A Unified Account for the Additive and the Scalar Uses of Italian Neppure (by Mari, Alda); 16. Default Morphology in Second Language Spanish: Missing Inflection or Underspecified Inflection? (by McCarthy, Corrine); 17. Early Object Omission in Child French and English (by Perez-Leroux, Ana Teresa); 18. Agreement Paradigms Across Moods and Tenses (by Pirvulescu, Mihaela); 19. Italian Volerci: Lexical Verb or Functional Head? (by Russi, Cinzia); 20. Restructuring of Reverse Psychological Predicate (by Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline); 21. Subject Index
