Variation within and across Romance Languages
Selected papers from the 41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ottawa, 5–7 May 2011
This volume is a selection of twenty peer-reviewed articles first presented at the 41st annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held at the University of Ottawa in 2011. They are thematically linked by a broad notion of variation across languages, dialects, speakers, time, linguistic contexts, and communicative situations. Furthermore, the articles address common theoretical and empirical issues from different formal, experimental, or corpus-based perspectives. The languages analyzed belong to the main members of the Romance family, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French, Ladin, Italian, Sardinian, and Romanian, and a variety of topics across a wide spectrum of linguistic subfields, from phonetics to semantics, as well as historical linguistics, bilingualism and second-language learning, is covered. By illustrating the richness and complementarity of subjects, methods, and theoretical frameworks explored within Romance linguistics, significant contributions are made to both the documentation of Romance languages and to linguistic theory.
Table of Contents
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Foreword and Acknowledgments | pp. vii–viii
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Editors’ introduction | pp. 1–14
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Part I. Sound patterns
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Sibilant voicing assimilation in peninsular Spanish as gestural blendingRebeka Campos-Astorkiza | pp. 17–38
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Phonology-morphology opacity in Harmonic Serialism: The case of /s/ aspiration in SpanishFrancesc Torres-Tamarit | pp. 39–62
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Morphologically conditioned intervocalic rhotacism in Algherese Catalan: An account with lexically indexed constraintsMaria Cabrera-Callís | pp. 63–76
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Muta cum liquida in the light of Tertenia Sardinian metathesis and compensatory lengthening Latin tr > Old French VrrTobias Scheer | pp. 77–100
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Schwa at the phonology/syntax interfaceMichael L. Mazzola | pp. 101–118
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Weight effects across verbal domains: The case of Spanish subjectsRoberto Mayoral Hernández and Asier Alcázar | pp. 119–132
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Part II. Syntax and semantics
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On truth persistence: A comparison between European Portuguese and Italian in relation to semprePatrícia Amaral and Fabio Del Prete | pp. 135–154
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Pick some but not all alternatives!Anamaria Fălăus | pp. 155–172
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Polarity fronting in Romanian and SardinianIon Giurgea and Eva-Maria Remberger | pp. 173–198
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Degree quantification and scope in Puerto Rican SpanishJavier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Melvin González-Rivera | pp. 199–212
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‘Minimal link constraint’ violations: Move vs. AgreeMihaela Marchis Moreno | pp. 213–232
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On subjunctives and islandhoodLéna Baunaz and Genoveva Puskás | pp. 233–254
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When control can’t be a factLisa A. Reed | pp. 255–274
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Part III. Historical aspects
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Prevocalic velar advancement in Chilean Spanish and Proto-RomanceCarolina González | pp. 277–296
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The role of the copula in the diachronic development of focus constructions in PortugueseMary Aizawa Kato | pp. 297–314
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The French wh interrogative system: Evolution and cleftingSandrine Tailleur | pp. 315–330
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On the relation between functional architecture and patterns of change in Romance object clitic syntaxChristina Tortora | pp. 331–348
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Part IV. Interactions across dialects and languages
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Investigating the effects of perceptual salience and regional dialect on phonetic accommodation in SpanishBethany MacLeod | pp. 351–378
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English questions, Spanish structure: A shared-structure account of interlinguistic influence in bilingual first language acquisitionLisa Hsin | pp. 379–400
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French oral proficiency assessment: Elicited imitation with speech recognitionBenjamin Millard and Deryle Lonsdale | pp. 401–416
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Name index | pp. 417–422
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Subject index | pp. 423–426
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