Contemporary Research in Romance Linguistics: Papers from the XXII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, El Paso/Juárez, February 22–24, 1992

CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN ROMANCE LINGUISTICS......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
Copyright page......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
0. Introduction: Loss of r-codas in Vinzelles Occitan......Page 10
2. Long distance dissimilation and deletion of liquids in Romance......Page 11
3. An alternative analysis of the problem......Page 13
5. Dominance and adjacency effects......Page 16
6. Conclusion......Page 19
REFERENCES......Page 20
1. Prosodic phonology......Page 22
2.1. Glide Formation.......Page 24
2.2. Préfixai nasalization.......Page 26
2.3. Other prefixes.......Page 28
3. Advantages......Page 30
REFERENCES......Page 31
0. Introduction......Page 34
1. The data......Page 35
2.2. Nasal Compensatory Lengthening (NCL).......Page 36
2.3. Closed Syllable Lengthening (CSL).......Page 37
2.4. Voiced Continuant Lengthening (VCL).......Page 38
3. Extraprosodicity......Page 39
4. Conclusion......Page 43
REFERENCES......Page 44
0. Introduction......Page 46
1.1 Problems with deletion rules.......Page 47
1.3. Syllabic templates.......Page 48
2. Lexical Deletion in Catalan......Page 49
2.1. /n/-Deletion.......Page 50
2.2. /r/-Deletion.......Page 52
2.3. Cluster simplification.......Page 54
3. Rule ordering......Page 58
REFERENCES......Page 60
0. Introduction......Page 62
1.1. Skeletal floatation.......Page 63
1.2. Syllabic floatation.......Page 66
1.3. Double floatation.......Page 69
1.4. Moralc Theory and latent consonants.......Page 71
2. The prosodic integration of latent consonants......Page 72
2.2.1. The representation of true vowel-initial words.......Page 73
2.2.2. The representation of h-aspiré words.......Page 74
2.3. The prosodic integration of latent consonants: Discussion.......Page 76
2.4. The case of h-aspiré words.......Page 80
REFERENCES......Page 84
1.1. The Genitive with à.......Page 88
1.3. The Juxtaposition Genitive.......Page 90
1.3.1. The Postnominal Juxtaposition Genitive.......Page 91
2. Old French genitive constructions and the structure of DP......Page 92
2.2. AGR in DP.......Page 93
2.2.1. Old French AGR as [+lexical], [+strong].......Page 94
2.2.2. The structure of Old French DPs.......Page 95
3. Language change......Page 97
REFERENCES......Page 98
0. Introduction......Page 100
1. Methodology......Page 103
2. Results......Page 104
REFERENCES......Page 110
APPENDIX......Page 111
0. Introduction......Page 114
2. Use of the pronoun se......Page 118
3. Clitic placement......Page 119
4. Case marking......Page 121
5. Word order......Page 123
6. Motivations for the change in complement types......Page 126
REFERENCES......Page 129
0. Introduction......Page 132
1. Phonology of San Andrés Spanish......Page 134
2. Grammar of San Andrés Spanish......Page 136
3. Lexical peculiarities in Otomi Spanish......Page 138
4. Repetition in Otomi Spanish discourse......Page 139
5. Nahuatl Spanish phonological and grammatical features......Page 140
6. Conclusions......Page 141
REFERENCES......Page 142
FROM LEBRIXA'S GRAMMAR TO CARTESIAN LANGUAGE THEORY: A RETROJECTIVE VIEW......Page 144
REFERENCES......Page 167
0. Introduction......Page 176
1. Diachronic rules resulting in Rumanian /i/......Page 177
2. Early Common Slavic loanwords and placenames in Rumanian......Page 178
3. Characteristics of phonological borrowing......Page 181
4. Language shift......Page 183
REFERENCES......Page 184
FEATURE-CHECKING AND THE SYNTAX OF LANGUAGE CONTACT......Page 186
REFERENCES......Page 193
1. General Spanish......Page 196
2. Puerto Rican Caribbean......Page 202
3.A Comparison of GS and PRS......Page 207
4. Conclusion......Page 210
REFERENCES......Page 211
0. Introduction......Page 214
1. On the content of semantic representations......Page 215
2. Two problems for global semantics: Indexical linking and polysemy......Page 218
3. A selective approach......Page 224
4. Case studies......Page 228
5. Conclusion......Page 242
REFERENCES......Page 243
0. Haitian and French in Diachrony......Page 246
1. Haitian Se and French C'est : Alike?......Page 247
2. Haitian Se and French C'est : Different?......Page 250
3. What is the Nature of Se?......Page 256
4. Implications......Page 260
5. Haitian and French in Diachrony (bis)......Page 261
REFERENCES......Page 262
0. Introduction......Page 266
1. Some Distinguishing Properties of ser and estar......Page 268
2. Conclusion......Page 281
REFERENCES......Page 282
THE VP-INTERNAL SUBJECT HYPOTHESIS AND SPANISH SENTENCE STRUCTURE......Page 284
REFERENCES......Page 297
0. Introduction......Page 300
1. Informational word order......Page 302
2. Focus of contrast......Page 305
4. Sentence topic direct object......Page 307
5. Contrary to expectation......Page 310
6. Comment focalization......Page 311
7. Generalizations......Page 312
REFERENCES......Page 314
0. Introduction......Page 316
1. The Short Head Movement Proposal......Page 318
2. Participle Raising in Main and Subordinate Sentences......Page 321
3. Negation and Participle Raising......Page 322
REFERENCES......Page 324
1. The MasullolBaker account of PI for Spanish datives......Page 328
2. Possessor Raising as Preposition Incorporation of a genitive phrase......Page 330
3. Benefactives as Preposition Incorporation of an adjunct......Page 333
4. Ambiguity among thematic roles, benefactives, possessives......Page 338
REFERENCES......Page 339
1. Introduction......Page 342
2. The infinitival AGR~S° and the imperative AGR-C° as anaphors......Page 349
3. The anaphoric AGR°(-S/-C°) as intervening governors......Page 356
6. Conclusion......Page 360
REFERENCES......Page 361
1. On Certain ECP Effects in Spanish......Page 364
2. Wh-phrase/QP Interactions: Some Puzzling Asymmetries......Page 365
3. On the Nature of SPEC/IP and its Relevance for Quantification......Page 370
REFERENCES......Page 374
1. Verb + Noun Compounds......Page 376
2. The Verb Stem......Page 378
3. Novel verb+noun compounds......Page 381
4. Implications for the imperative......Page 385
REFERENCES......Page 388