Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2010
Subtitle: Selected papers from "Going Romance" Leiden 2010
By: Edited by Irene Franco, Sara Lusini, Leiden University ; Andrés Saab, Leiden University / National University of Comahue
Contributors: Franco, Irene, 1980- editor of compilation
Series: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory -- Volume 4
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9789027203847; 9789027272478
Subjects: Romance languages; Congresses
Description: The annual 'Going Romance' conference has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are tested. The twenty-fourth 'Going Romance' conference was organized by the Leiden University Centre of Linguistics (LUCL) and took place in Leiden on 9-11 December 2010. The present volume contains a selective collection of peer-reviewed articles (10 out of approximately 30 contributions) dealing with poignant issues in syntax, phonology, morphology, and semantics of the Romance languages. The innovative character of the proposals as well as the discussions of various interface issues offered by the papers contained in this volume are interesting for both Romance scholars and other linguists. Among the contributions are the papers presented by the invited speaker M. Rita Manzini and of prominent linguists such as João Costa, Viviane Deprez and David Embick.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From Romance clitics to case: Split accusativity and the Person Case Constraint / Maria Rita Manzini; title: Contextual conditions on stem alternations: Illustrations from the Spanish conjugation /  David Embick; title: State nouns are Kimian states / Antonio Fábregas & Rafael Marín; title: "I know the answer": a Perfect State in Capeverdean / Fernanda Pratas; title: Stressed vowel duration in Italian: What paroxytones and proparoxytones have in common / Stefano Canalis & Luigia Garrapa; title: Serial prosodification and voiced stop geminates in Catalan / Francesc Torres-Tamarit & Clàudia Pons-Moll; title: Interfacing information and prosody: French in situ questions / Viviane Déprez, Kristen Syrett & Shigeto Kawahara; title: VP Ellipsis: new evidence from Capeverdean / João Costa, Ana Maria Martins & Fernanda Pratas; title: Anti-repair effects under ellipsis: diagnosing (post-)syntactic clitics in Spanish / Andrés Saab & Pablo Zdrojewski; title: On the argument structure of the causative construction: evidence from scope interactions / Francesco Costantini.