Contributions of Romance Languages to Current Linguistic Theory

Includes chapters written by the top international scholars in their respective fields
Covers a wide range of Romance languages and dialects
Will serve as a resource for scholars and students

Contenu

Introduction; Julia Herschensohn.- Part I Romance Syntax.- Classifier Phrase as Host for Stage-level Spanish Adnominal Participial Adjectives; Karen Zagona and Heles Contreras.- The Syntax of Mirative Focus Fronting: Evidence from French; J.-Marc Authier and Liliane Haegeman.- Further Implications of French Devoir and Falloir for Theories of Control and Modality; Lisa A. Reed.- Part II Language Variation in Romance.- Theoretical and Practical Arguments for a Language Feature: Evidence From Language Mixing; Barbara E. Bullock & Almeida Jacqueline Toribio.- On the Reduction of // in a Minority North American Variety of French; Randall Gess; Why Lenition Interactions are Typically Counter-feeding; Haike Jacobs.- The French Jespersen's Cycle and Negative Concord; Marie Labelle.- Part III Diachronic Romance Studies.- The Variable Position of Initial Subordinate clauses in Old French: arguments Against a semantic account; Bryan Donaldson.- Obviation and Old French Subjunctive Clauses; Deborah Arteaga.- On the varying fortunes of darla and darlo in Italian; Cinzia Russi.- Conclusion; Julia Herschensohn.

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