Contemporary approaches to Romance linguistics selected papers from the 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Bloomington, Indiana, April 2003 (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2004)
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO ROMANCE LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CASE, AGREEMENT, AND EXPLETIVES; PARADIGMATIC AND SYNTAGMATIC RELATIONS IN ITALIAN VERBAL INFLECTION; THE ROLE OF THE L1 IN THE OVERGENERALIZATION OF CAUSATIVES IN L2 ENGLISH AND L2 SPANISH; THE INCHOATIVE INTERPRETATION OF THE IMPERFECTO; REINTERPRETING THE CV TRANSITION; INTERVOCALIC VELAR NASALS IN GALICIAN; NULL OBJECTS IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH; MICRO-PARAMETRIC VARIATION AND NEGATIVE CONCORD; CONTRAST AND ADDITION IN ROMANCE; ON THE STRUCTURE OF SYNCRETISM IN ROMANIAN CONJUGATION.
This collection of twenty articles, selected from the 33rd annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at Indiana University in 2003, presents current theoretical approaches to a variety of issues in Romance linguistics. Invited speakers Luigi Burzio and José Ignacio Hualde contribute papers on the paradigmatics and syntagmatics of Italian verbal inflection and comparative/diachronic Romance intonation, respectively. The other papers, whose authors include both well-known researchers and younger scholars, represent such areas as French syntax (both synchronic and diachronic), second