Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 28th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVIII), University Park, 16–19 April 1998

FORMAL PERSPECTIVES ON ROMANCE LINGUISTICS......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
Copyright page......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 6
Table of contents......Page 8
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 10
Dedication......Page 13
1. Phrase structure and adjunction......Page 14
2. Functional projections and their features......Page 16
3. Feature checking and its consequences......Page 19
4. The syntax-semantics interface......Page 20
5. The status of UG in second language acquisition......Page 24
6. Phonology and morphology......Page 25
7. The phonology -phonetics interface......Page 26
8. Syllabification and lexical levels......Page 27
9. Transderivation and allomorphy selection......Page 28
REFERENCES......Page 29
1. Constraints on bare nouns in Spanish......Page 34
2. Two neocarlsonian approaches to BPLs......Page 38
3. Toward an account......Page 41
4. Open questions and issues for future work......Page 48
5. Conclusion......Page 49
REFERENCES......Page 50
CASE FEATURE CHECKING AND ITS CONSEQUENCES EVIDENCE FROM EN-CLITICIZATION IN FRENCH......Page 52
1. A new solution to an old problem: en-cliticization in French......Page 53
2. Better empirical coverage of French......Page 59
3. A natural extension to other Romance languages......Page 64
4. Towards an explanation of the definiteness restriction......Page 65
REFERENCES......Page 68
0. Introduction......Page 70
1. Distribution of rhotics in Ecuadorian and Standard Spanish......Page 71
2. Phonological accounts of the Standard flap-trill alternation......Page 73
3. Problems for phonological accounts of Ecuadorian......Page 76
4. A phonology-phonetics account of Ecuadorian......Page 77
5. Concluding remarks......Page 82
REFERENCES......Page 83
1. The \'Law of Coordination of Likes\' and its counterexamples......Page 86
2. Conjunction of temporally and aspectually dissimilar features......Page 89
3. The role of adverbs......Page 92
4. On the asymmetry between tense and agreement......Page 94
5. Negation......Page 96
6. Implications for the structure of conjunction......Page 97
REFERENCES......Page 100
0. Introduction......Page 102
1. Some properties of heavy NPs in Standard French......Page 103
2. Some properties of heavy NPs in Canadian French......Page 106
3. Deriving Heavy NP-shift in Standard and Canadian French......Page 108
4. Conclusion......Page 116
REFERENCES......Page 117
0. Introduction......Page 120
1. Preliminary assumptions......Page 122
2. The analysis......Page 123
3. Reconstruction......Page 125
4. Crosslinguistic data......Page 126
5. Additional asymmetries......Page 128
6. Conclusion......Page 130
REFERENCES......Page 131
0. Introduction......Page 134
1. Current approaches to assimilation in Optimality Theory......Page 135
2. Analysis of the Gallo-Romance data......Page 137
REFERENCES......Page 145
0. Introduction......Page 148
1. Towards an explanation: pro subject in passive sentences......Page 150
2. First difference: The presence of passive morphology......Page 152
3. The second difference: The presence of by-phrases......Page 157
4. Indefinite SE......Page 158
5. Conclusion......Page 161
REFERENCES......Page 162
0. Introduction......Page 164
1. Bare plurals and indefinites from a type-theoretical perspective......Page 165
2. Three types of indefinites......Page 166
3. Unos \"a-pl. \"as a group indefinite......Page 171
4. Choice function indefinites......Page 173
5. Focus and type-shifting......Page 174
6. Differential scope of indefinites......Page 176
REFERENCES......Page 178
1. The access debate and the Minimalist Program......Page 180
2. The Verb Raising Parameter in L2 French......Page 183
3. Beyond parameter setting evidence......Page 186
4. Conclusion......Page 189
REFERENCES......Page 190
0.Introduction......Page 192
1. An apparent case of conflictual agreement......Page 193
2.Conflictual agreement in qualitativ e nominals......Page 196
3. The internal structure of qualitative DPs......Page 202
4. External agreement......Page 205
5. Internal agreement......Page 206
REFERENCES......Page 208
0. Introduction......Page 210
1. Caribbean Spanish I......Page 212
2. Rio Negro Argentinian and Caribbean II......Page 216
3. Buenos Aires Argentinian and Chinato......Page 218
4. Summary......Page 221
REFERENCES......Page 222
0. Introduction......Page 224
1. Internal arguments in imperatives......Page 225
2. Analysis......Page 230
3. Conclusion......Page 237
REFERENCES......Page 238
0. Introduction......Page 240
1. Pronominal null objects in contact varieties of Spanish......Page 241
2. The syntactic distribution of null objects in languages in contact......Page 245
3. Languages in contact and the \'Transfer of D° Hypothesis\'......Page 252
REFERENCES......Page 254
1. Introduction......Page 256
2. Lexical conservatism in English Level 2 phonology......Page 257
3. Formalizing lexical conservatism and split base effects......Page 259
4. French liaison analyzed......Page 264
5. Extensions......Page 276
6. Implications and conclusions......Page 280
REFERENCES......Page 281
0. Introduction......Page 284
1. Proposal......Page 285
2. Illustrations......Page 286
3. Interaction of OSD with suppletive liaison......Page 293
4. French ce/cet \"this \" in other dialects/registers......Page 297
5. Conclusion......Page 299
REFERENCES......Page 300
0. Introduction......Page 302
1. Optimality Theory......Page 303
2. Long segments and [sC] clusters in Standard Italian......Page 304
3. Piedmontese......Page 312
REFERENCES......Page 315
0. Introduction......Page 318
1. Tense interpretation, TP, and Time arguments......Page 320
2. Times and functional projections in clause structure......Page 323
3. Checking features of Time Phrases......Page 327
4. [±Finite] feature mismatches......Page 332
5. Accusative and finiteness......Page 336
6. Concluding remarks......Page 338
REFERENCES......Page 339
INDEX OF TERMS AND CONCEMPTS......Page 342