Full Description
The present volume includes a selection of twenty-one peer-reviewed and revised papers from the 37th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Pittsburgh in 2007. The papers cover a range of topics in morphology, syntax, phonology and language acquisition. A number of languages and varieties are also analyzed, including Italian, Spanish, Judeo-Spanish, Old Spanish, French, Old French, and Romanian. Contributions include papers from three of the invited speakers, Heles Contreras, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Julia Herschensohn. This volume highlights theoretical issues under current debate in Romance linguistics.
Contents
1. Foreword; 2. Null Expletives and Case: The View from Romance (by Alboiu, Gabriela); 3. On the Existence of Null Complementizers in Old French (by Arteaga, Deborah); 4. On the Lack of Transparency Effects in French (by Authier, Jean-Marc); 5. On the Syllabification of Prevocalic /w/ in Judeo-Spanish (by Bradley, Travis G.); 6. Word Order and Minimalism (by Contreras, Heles); 7. The Status of Old French Clitics in the 12th Century (by Culbertson, Jennifer); 8. Towards a Unified Account of Positive and Negative Polarity: Evidence from Romanian (by Falaus, Anamaria); 9. Correlativization and Degree Quantification in Spanish (by Gutierrez-Rexach, Javier); 10. Imperfect Variation and Class Marking in the Old Spanish Third Conjugation (by Henriksen, Nicholas); 11. Licensing Negative Fragments and the Interpretation of Comparison (by Herdan, Simona); 12. Developing I-Language in L1 and L2 (by Herschensohn, Julia); 13. Crypto-Variation in Italian Velar Palatalisation (by Kramer, Martin); 14. Antisymmetry and the Typology of Relative Clauses: Morphological Evidence from Romance (by Martin, Juan); 15. Romance Paths as Cognate Complements: A Lexical-Syntactic Account (by Mateu, Jaume); 16. Discriminating Pitch Accent Alignment in Spanish (by Ronquest, Rebecca E.); 17. Proscriptions...Gaps...and Something in Between: An Experimental Examination of Spanish Phonotactics (by Shelton, Michael); 18. Romanian Palatalization: The Role of Place of Articulation in Perception (by Spinu, Laura); 19. Putting in Order the Spanish DP (by Ticio, Emma); 20. The Domain of Palatalization in Romanian (by Vogel, Irene); 21. Rhotic Metathesis Asymmetries in Romance: Formalizing the Effects of Articulation and Perception on Sound Change (by Russell, Eric); 22. The Left Edge in the Spanish Clausal Structure (by Zubizarreta, Maria Luisa); 23. Index
