Romance Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition, Selected Papers from the 32nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Toronto, April 2002

ROMANCELINGUISTICS
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Editorial page
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Title page
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Copyright page
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PREFACE
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Table of contents
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PART ONE THEORY
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1. Introduction......Page 12
2. Empirical and theoretical problems
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3. Romanian syntax: Basic assumptions
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4.1 Weak crossover effects
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4.2 Parasitic gaps
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5. Streamlining optionality: an analysis
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5.2 Focus operators and the syntax-phonology interface
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6.1 Derivations with both [+Q] and [+focus] formal features
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REFERENCES
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1. Introduction
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2. Some crucial assumptions about the syntax of scope
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3. The structure of Faire-par
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4. Is faire lexically ambiguous?
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REFERENCES
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0. Introduction
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1. The data1
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2. The underlying representation (UR)
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3.1 Fortition of vocoids in monomorphemes
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3.2 Fortition in Morphological Processes
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3.3 Prosodic word boundaries and fortition
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3.4 Constraining fortition in lexically marked vocoids
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5. Conclusion
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REFERENCES
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1. The Person Case Constraint
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2. Agreement and Case
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3. Split o-Probe and PCC
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4. Obviating the PCC: The distribution of n Probes
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5. Subjecthood and PCC in DNCs
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6. Spanish and subjecthood in pro-drop languages
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REFERENCES
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0. Introduction......Page 72
1. The Latin vowel system and its development
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2. The change [+high, -A TR]- ->[-high, +A TRR].
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3. The repair strategy of negation
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REFERENCES
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2. Typology of pronominal forms: strong, weak and clitics
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3. The case of European Portuguese possessives
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4. The case of adverbs with weak behavior in European Portuguese
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5. Proposal and predictions
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REFERENCES......Page 118
1. Introduction
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2. Seem+ experiencer constructions cross-linguistically
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3. Dative subjects
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4. Epistemic verbs: ECM or Control?......Page 126
5. Experiencer as subject and controller......Page 129
6. No reflexive with parecer+ experiencer......Page 133
7. Further issues......Page 135
8. Conclusion......Page 137
REFERENCES......Page 138
1. Introduction: discourse connectives
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2. Adverbial modification
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3. Detached "manner" adverbíals as adverbs of quantification......Page 143
4. Quantificational selectivity.......Page 144
5. Non-peripheral manner adverbials
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6. Existential and negative manner operators
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7. Manner adverbials at the interface
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REFERENCES
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1. Introduction
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2. Residual Tobler-Mussafia effects
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3.1 Type I dialects
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3.2 Type II dialects
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4.1 Type A
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4.2 Type B
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4.2.1 Negative imperatives with pas
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4.2.2 Negative imperatives with a negative quantifier
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5. Syntactic account
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REFERENCES
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1.Introduction
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2.1 Events
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2.2 States
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3.1 Kamp 1981
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3.2 Swart 1998 and Swart & Molendijk 1999
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4. The aspectual nature of clauses in the imparfait
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5. Predication on a temporal referent of discourse
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6. The interpretation in context of a clause in the imparfait
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8. Conclusion
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REFERENCES
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1. Introduction......Page 190
2. Observation : the distribution of preposed adverbs
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3. NP subject inversion and topicality/thematicity
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4. Stage topics and NP subject inversion
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5.1 The position of the verb in AdvSV and AdvVS
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6. Conclusion
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REFERENCES
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1. The facts
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2.1 Inflected infinitives in European Portuguese
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3. Infinitive clauses as substitutes for subjunctive clauses in BP
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3.1 The diachrony of for-infinitive constructions in English: a parallel with BP
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5. Final remarks
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REFERENCES
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1. The prosodic component
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2. Glide obstruentization
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3. Opacity: interacting with epenthesis
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4. Sympathy and Comparative Markedness
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REFERENCES
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1. Introduction
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3. General theoretical background
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5. More on the properties of a deficient ça
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5.1 The internal feature matrix of ça
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5.2 Ça lacks Structural Case
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5.3 Why a restriction with the present Tense?
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REFERENCES
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PART TWO ACQUISITION
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0. Introduction......Page 290
1. Spanish stress......Page 291
3.1 Research questions......Page 293
3.2 Participants and tasks......Page 294
4. Results......Page 295
REFERENCES......Page 304
0. Introduction......Page 308
1. The syntax of 'beaucoup' and its Dutch equivalent 'veel'......Page 309
2. Bilingual first language acquisition......Page 311
3.1 Methodology......Page 312
3.2 Results......Page 314
4.1 Methodology......Page 315
4.2 Results......Page 316
5.1 Subject/object asymmetry......Page 318
5.2 Cross-linguistic influence......Page 321
6. Conclusion......Page 323
REFERENCES......Page 324
1. Introduction......Page 326
2.1 The Principles and Parameters stage......Page 327
2.2 Lexical units and features: language variation and the lexicon......Page 329
3. N-N compounding and the [+word marker] feature of Spanish Nouns......Page 331
4.1 Morphological paradigms, triggers, and N-Drop......Page 338
4.2 The [word marker] feature as a functional category......Page 339
4.3 Morphological paradigms and protodeterminers......Page 341
4.4 The role of 'phono-morphological vocabulary ' in the activation of the [word marker/gender] uninterpretable feature of Spanish DPs......Page 342
5. Unin terpretable features and language dominance in child bilingual acquisition......Page 347
5.2 Data from three developmental case studies......Page 349
6. Conclusion......Page 353
REFERENCES......Page 354
2. Background: competing accounts of null subjects......Page 360
3. Verbal Morphology and the Acquisition of Agreement......Page 362
3.1 Data......Page 363
3.2.1 Pronouns......Page 364
3.2.2 Verbal Morphology......Page 368
4. Conclusion and remaining issues......Page 372
REFERENCES......Page 373
1. Introduction......Page 376
2. Predictions......Page 378
3. Previous research on L2 French......Page 379
4. The data......Page 381
5.1 Finite and nonfinite declaratives......Page 382
5.2 Finiteness and clause-types......Page 383
5.3 Finiteness and subject types......Page 384
5.4 Finiteness and negation......Page 385
5.5 Verb forms in nonfmite contexts......Page 388
5.6 Interpretation of root declaratives......Page 389
6. Discussion and conclusion......Page 390
REFERENCES......Page 392
2. Why a unifying analysis for articles and auxiliaries......Page 256
3. Romanian articles and auxiliaries: predictions for acquisition......Page 257
5. Auxiliaries and determiners in child Romanian......Page 260
6. Analysis......Page 266
7. Why Agreement ?......Page 268
REFERENCES......Page 270
1. Introduction......Page 272
2. Root Infinitives in BFLA......Page 273
3. Participial Constructions in BFLA......Page 275
3.1.1 Monolingual Data......Page 276
3.1.2 Bilingual Data......Page 277
3.2.1 Monolingual Data......Page 278
3.2.2 Bilingual Data......Page 280
4.1.1 Wexler's (1998) Model......Page 281
4.1.2 Properties of Italian......Page 282
4.1.3 Properties of German......Page 283
4.2 Analysis of Frequency Asymmetries......Page 286
5. Conclusion......Page 288
REFERENCES......Page 289
3.1 Adult L2 acquisition of Spanish N-N compounds: a production experiment......Page 333
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 394