Romance Linguistics 2009

Selected papers from the 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Tucson, Arizona, March 2009

Edited by Sonia Colina, Antxon Olarrea and Ana Maria Carvalho
University of Arizona
This volume contains a selection of twenty-four peer-reviewed papers from the 39th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Arizona in 2009. Contributions cover a wide variety of topics in the areas of phonology, phonetics, syntax, morphology, and diachronic Romance linguistics, with an emphasis on language variation and change. Among the languages and varieties of Romance analyzed are Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Old French, Old Occitan, and Hispano-Romance.The research in this volume points to a cohesiveness in Romance linguistics that lies in the integration of up-to-date linguistic research with a comparative tradition and the in-depth study of a language family. The work presented will be of interest to scholars of Romance linguistics and of linguistics alike.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 315]  2010.  xiv, 426 pp.
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Table of Contents

Editors’ introduction
1–12
Correcting the record on Dominican [s]-hypercorrection
Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
15–24
V-to-V assimilation in trisyllabic words in French: Evidence for gradience and locality
Christopher Carignan and Zsuzsanna Fagyal
25–42
The production and provenance of palatal nasals in Portuguese and Spanish
Ryan Shosted and José Ignacio Hualde
43–62
Lenition and phonemic contrast in Majorcan Catalan
José Ignacio Hualde, Marianna Nadeu and Miquel Simonet
63–80
Alveolar laterals in Majorcan Spanish: Effects of contact with Catalan?
Miquel Simonet
81–94
Units of speech production in Italian
Irene Vogel and Linda Wheeldon
95–110
Pitch polarity in Palenquero: A possible locus of H tone
John M. Lipski
111–128
Word-minimality and sound change in Hispano-Romance
Fernando Martínez-Gil
129–152
Multiple opacity in Eastern Regional French
Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil
153–166
Syntactic variation in Colombian Spanish: The case of the Focalizing Ser (FS) structure
Dunia Catalina Méndez Vallejo
169–186
Anaphoricity, logophoricity and intensification: The puzzling case of son propre in French
Isabelle Charnavel
187–202
More on the clitic combination puzzle: Evidence from Spanish, Catalan and Romanian
Anahí Alba de la Fuente
203–216
The Spanish dative alternation revisited
John Beavers and Chiyo Nishida
217–230
Romanian genderless pronouns and parasitic gaps
Ion Giurgea
231–248
To agree or not to agree: Beyond quintessentially syntactic agreement in Spanish
Julio Villa-García
249–266
Variation in subject expression in Western Romance
Ana de Prada Pérez
267–284
A phase-based analysis of Old French genitive constructions
Deborah Arteaga and Julia Herschensohn
285–300
V2 loss in Old French and Old Occitan: The role of fronted clauses
Barbara Vance, Bryan Donaldson and Devan Steiner
301–320
The loss and survival of inflectional morphology: Contextual vs. inherent inflection in creoles
Ana R. Luís
323–336
Allomorphy in pre-clitic imperatives in Formenteran Catalan: An output-based analysis
Eulàlia Bonet and Francesc Torres-Tamarit
337–352
Preverbal vowels in wh-questions and declarative sentences in Northern Italian Piacentine dialects
Anna Cardinaletti and Lori Repetti
353–368
Pitch accent, focus, and the interpretation of non-wh exclamatives in French
Heather Burnett
369–386
Detours along the perfect path
Patrícia Amaral and Chad Howe
387–404
Grammaticalization of commencer/cominciare “to begin” in French and Italian
Jason Brazeal
405–422
Index of subjects, terms and languages
423–426

Subjects

Benjamins Subject classification

BIC Subject

CF/2AD: Linguistics/Romance, Italic & Rhaeto-Romanic languages

BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2010032379
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