Romance linguistics 2007 selected papers from the 37th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Pittsburgh, 15-18 March 2007 (John Benjamins Pub., 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Null expletives and case : the view from Romance / Gabriela Alboiu -- On the existence of null complementizers in Old French / Deborah Arteaga -- On the lack of transparency effects in French / J.-Marc Authier & Lisa A. Reed -- On the syllabification of prevocalic /w/ in Judeo-Spanish / Travis G. Bradley -- Word order and minimalism / Hele Contreras -- The status of Old French clitics in the 12th century / Jennifer Culbertson -- Towards a unified account of positive and negative polarity : evidence from Romanian / Anamaria Falaus -- Correlativization and degree quantification in Spanish / Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach -- Imperfect variation and class marking in the Old Spanish third conjugation / Nicholas C. Henriksen -- Licensing negative fragments and the interpretation of comparison / Simona Herdan -- Developing I-language in L1 and L2 / Julia Herschensohn -- Crypto-variation in Italian velar palatalisation / Martin Krämer -- Antisymmetry and the typology of relative clauses : syntactic and morphological evidence from Spanish / Juan Martín -- Romance paths as cognate complements : a lexical-syntactic account / Jaume Mateu & Gemma Rigau -- Discriminating pitch accent alignment in Spanish / Rebecca E. Ronquest & Manuel Díaz-Campos -- Proscriptions-- gaps-- and something in betweetn : an experimental examination of Spanish phonotactics / Michael Shelton, Chip Gerfen & Nicolas Gutiérrez Palma -- Romanian palatalization : the role of place of articulation in perception / Laura Spinu -- Putting the Spanish determiner phrase in order / M. Emma Ticio -- The domain of palatalization in Romanian / Irene Vogel & Laura Spinu -- Rhotic metathesis asymmetries in Romance : formalizing the effects of articulation and perception on sound change / Eric Russell Webb & Travis G. Bradley -- The left edge in the Spanish clausal structure / Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
The present volume includes a selection of twenty-one peer-reviewed and revised papers from the 37th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Pittsburgh in 2007. The papers cover a range of topics in morphology, syntax, phonology and language acquisition. A number of languages and varieties are also analyzed, including Italian, Spanish, Judeo-Spanish, Old Spanish, French, Old French, and Romanian. Contributions include papers from three of the invited speakers, Heles Contreras, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Julia Herschensohn. This volume highlights theor