Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2008: Selected Papers from 'Going Romance' Goningen 2008 (Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory RLLT )

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2008......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
Copyright page......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
1. Introduction......Page 12
2. On the characterization of double agreement......Page 13
3. The ‘lighter’ performative hypothesis......Page 17
4. In search of aux 2: Causatives in other imperative expressions......Page 21
References......Page 24
1. Introduction: Constructions and comparative correlatives......Page 28
2. The internal structure of C1 and C2......Page 29
3. The macro-structure of Spanish CCs......Page 35
4. A cartographic approach to CCs......Page 38
5. Extension of the informational analysis to other adjunct clauses and conclusions......Page 42
References......Page 46
1. Introduction......Page 48
2. The distribution of preverbal vowels in main questions......Page 49
3. The distribution of preverbal vowels in embedded questions......Page 52
4. Previous analyses......Page 53
5. The analysis: Functional vowels......Page 57
6. Long preverbal vowels......Page 59
7. Questions without subject-verb inversion......Page 60
8.1 Deictic subject clitics......Page 62
8.2 Veneto dialects and wh-questions......Page 64
8.3 Cross-linguistic variation in wh-questions and yes-no questions......Page 65
8.4 Paduan and constructions with left-peripheral constituents......Page 66
9. Conclusions......Page 67
References......Page 68
1. Introduction: Scrambling in Portuguese and romance......Page 70
2. Preverbal vs. postverbal lá......Page 73
3. Lá-preposing as middle scrambling......Page 77
4. Further empirical evidence: Restructuring and non-restructuring infinitives......Page 79
5. Lá-preposing and negation......Page 81
6. The syntactic locus of UT-T and speaker/utterance-anchored locatives......Page 83
7. Conclusion......Page 84
References......Page 85
1. The temporal construals of non-root modals......Page 88
1.2 The metaphysical reading......Page 89
2.1 The morphosyntax of epistemic construals......Page 90
2.2 The morphosyntax of metaphysical construals......Page 93
3. The temporal syntax of non root modals......Page 95
4. The epistemic construal of presenttense + perfectaspect modals......Page 97
5.1 Present perspective about a past situation (epistemic reading)......Page 101
5.2 Past perspective about a future in the past situation (metaphysical reading)......Page 103
6. Past-Tense modals in Spanish and French: Epistemic vs. metaphysical construals......Page 109
6.1 The metaphysical reading of past tense modals in French/Spanish......Page 110
6.2 The epistemic reading of simple past tense modals in French/Spanish......Page 111
References......Page 114
1. Introduction......Page 116
2.1 Degrees and binding......Page 118
2.2 Cross-linguistic variation......Page 119
3. The analysis......Page 121
3.1 Towards the local structure......Page 122
3.2 Degree questions......Page 125
3.3 Subcomparatives......Page 127
4. Extensions and issues......Page 131
5. Conclusions......Page 132
References......Page 133
1.1 The Romanian presumptive......Page 136
2. The presumptive – a strategy for indirect evidentiality......Page 139
2.1 Conditional-based morphology......Page 140
2.3 Future-based morphology......Page 141
3. Indirect evidentials vs. other modals......Page 142
3.1 Adverbial interactions......Page 144
3.2 Subject placement......Page 145
3.3 Conversational implicature vs. presupposition......Page 146
4. Structure of indirect evidentials......Page 147
4.1 Decomposing indirect evidentials......Page 149
References......Page 153
1. Harris & Halle’s approach......Page 156
2. Subdistinctions among clitics......Page 162
3. Clitic sequences......Page 164
4. The status of plural -n......Page 170
References......Page 178
1. Introduction......Page 182
2.1 The indicative paradigm......Page 184
2.3 Subjunctive tenses in root contexts......Page 188
3.1 Temporal (dis-)harmony and its interpretation......Page 193
3.2 Intensional subjunctives and future orientation......Page 195
3.3 Subjunctive contexts and DAR-effects......Page 199
References......Page 203
1. Introduction......Page 206
2. The data, the “final vowel” and a general hypothesis......Page 207
3.1 Significant complex vowels......Page 209
3.2 Syntactic structures in Italian nouns......Page 212
4. Towards a classification of Italian (nominal) roots......Page 221
5. Conclusions......Page 222
References......Page 223
1. Introduction......Page 226
2.1 Simple statements......Page 227
2.2 Some complications......Page 228
2.3 Prior approaches......Page 229
3. Verbs and morphemes revisited......Page 230
3.1 The verbs......Page 231
3.2 Various combinations......Page 232
4.1 Tense (-ba) and aspect (sata and ø)......Page 233
4.2 Modal situations with ta......Page 235
5. Where sabe and konxe are not stative bases......Page 237
5.1 A crucial kind of state: consequent states......Page 238
5.3 Temporal results......Page 239
6. Concluding remarks......Page 241
References......Page 242
1.1 Generalities......Page 244
1.2 Internal pluractionality......Page 245
2.1 Parts and plurality......Page 246
2.2 The number pattern......Page 249
2.3 The conative reading......Page 250
3.1 (A)Telicity......Page 252
3.2 Incrementality......Page 254
3.3 Beyond arguments, to scales......Page 255
3.4 Against a condition on cardinality......Page 256
References......Page 258
Language index......Page 260
Subject index......Page 262
The Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory series......Page 264