Romance linguistics 2006
Subtitle: selected papers from the 36th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New Brunswick, March 31-April 2, 2006
By: edited by José Camacho ... [et al.].
Contributors: Camacho, José
Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory -- v. 287; Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science -- v. 287.
Publisher: John Benjamins
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9789027291844
Subjects: Romance languages; Congresses; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY; Romaanse talen; Romance Languages (Other); French
Description: This volume presents selected papers from the 36th LSRL conference held at Rutgers University in 2006. It contains twenty-two articles of current approaches to the study of Romance linguistics. Well-known researchers present their findings in areas such as of syntax and semantics, phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics. The volume contains scholarly research in areas such as parenthetical null topic construction, expletives, number and language change, performative verbs in colonial court Spanish, aspect shift, palatilization in Romanian, melodic contours in Majorcan Catalan, variation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Romance Linguistics 2006; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Preface; Table of contents; PARENTHETICAL NULL TOPIC CONSTRUCTIONS IN ROMANCE; SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF SPLIT QUESTIONS; DISCONTINUOUS WH-CONSTITUENTS IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE; INTERPRETIVE DEFICIT?; SUBJECTS AND WH-QUESTIONS.; RHYTHMIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF SCHWA IN FRENCH; INVESTIGATING PHRASING LEVELS IN FRENCH; EXPLETIVES, NUMBER AND LANGUAGE CHANGE; PERFORMATIVE VERBS IN SPANISH MONOLINGUAL AND BILINGUAL COLONIAL COURT DOCUMENTS; NEGATIVE CONCORD AND DOUBLE NEGATION; SUB-EXTRACTION FROM SUBJECTS