Romance languages and linguistic theory 2002 selected papers from "Going Romance," Groningen, 28-30 November 2002 (John Benjamins, 2004)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTIC THEORY 2002; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; INTRODUCTION; CONTENTS; TENSE, QUANTIFICATION AND CLAUSE STRUCTURE IN EP AND BP; EARLY 'PRAGMATIC' COMPETENCE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS REGARDING THE NULL SUBJECT PHENOMENON; ON THE IMPACT OF FRENCH SUBJECT CLITICS ON THE INFORMATION STRUCTURE OF THE SENTENCE; A RESTRICTED VIEW OF HEAD MOVEMENT; THE EFFECTS OF PHONOLOGICAL CUES ON THE SYNTAX OF FOCUS CONSTRUCTIONS IN SPANISH; OPTIONAL INFINITIVES OR SILENT AUXES?; DISLOCATION, CLITIC RESUMPTION AND MINIMALITY; FOCUS ON NEGATIVE CONCORD; ROMANCE AND 'SOMETHING ELSE'
The Going Romance conferences are a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. Selected papers are published in the Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory volumes. This is the fourth such volume, containing a selection of the papers that have been presented at the 2002 conference, which was held at the State University of Groningen. The three-day program included a workshop on Acquisition. The articles in this volume focalize on specifics of one or more Romance languages or varieties: clausal structure, verb-movement, topic, focus and rein