Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2011 : Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Utrecht 2011.

Print version record.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2011; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; A'-dependencies in French: A study in L1 acquisition; 1. Introduction; 2. A'-dependencies in French: From syntax to acquisition; 2.1 WH-constructions; 2.2 Relative Clauses; 3. An experimental study of A'-dependencies in French; 3.1 Predictions; 3.2 Participants; 3.3 Material; 3.4 Procedure; 3.5 Results; 4. Discussion; 5. Conclusions; References; The irregular forms of the Italian "Passato Remoto": A synchronic and diachronic analysis; 1. Introduction; 2. Distributed Morphology.

3. Basic properties of Italien verbal morpho-syntax4. The Passato Remoto forms of regular verbs; 5. The Passato Remoto forms of irregular verbs; 6. The alternations between thematic and athematic forms in the Passato Remoto; 7. Development of passata remote forms; 8. Memorized alternants in the Passato Remoto Morphology; 9. Conclusion; References; On the lack of stranded negated quantifiers and inverse scope of negation in Romance; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Subject of the article; 1.2 The Stranding Analysis of Sportiche (1988) and Giusti (1990).

1.3 The Theory of Sentential Negation in Zeijlstra (2004)1.4 The Neg Stranding Hypothesis of Cirillo (2009); 2. Stranded negated quantifiers; 3. Inverse scope of negation; 3.1 Presentation of the hypothesis; 3.2 Alternatives to Neg Stranding; 3.3 Issues and Answers from Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish and French; 4. Summary; References; Evidence for the competition-based analysis of subjunctive obviation from relative and adverbial cl; 1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. Data; 3.1 Obviation in nonargument clauses; 3.2 Obviation weakening; 3.3 Clause types and infinitival clauses.

4. Approaches based on Binding Theory5. Conclusions; References; Quotative expansions; 0. Introduction; 1. Basic quotative constructions; 2. Predicative constructions with finite dependents; 2.1 More quotative predications; 2.2 The status of lo; 3. Binominal quotative constructions; 3.1 Definiteness restrictions; 3.2 A structural variant; 3.3 The quotative reading; 3.4 Back to que-clauses; 3.5 Interim summary; 4. Gerundive quotatives; 5. A note on silence; 6. Conclusion; References; Datives, prepositions, and argument structure in Spanish; 1. Introduction and data; 2. Previous accounts.

2.1 Cuervo (2003)'s tripartite applicative system2.2 Pujalte's (2009) core vs. non-core datives; 2.3 Beavers and Nishida (2010)'s lexical alternation; 3. Transfer of possession; 4. Conclusions; References; A typology of agreement processes and its implications for language development; 1. Introduction: agreement and locality; 2. Agreement in Early Italian; 3. Experiment -- a Forced Choice of Grammatical Form Task; 3.1 Materials; 3.2 Subjects; 3.3 Results; 4. Discussion and conclusion; References; On the syntax of focalizers in some Italo-Romance dialects; 1. Introduction.

2. Focalizing subjects.

In the literature several theoretical analyses of nominal ellipsis of various languages have been proposed. In this exploratory and comparative study the L1 French and Dutch acquisition of noun ellipsis is analyzed. The L1 data suggest that a theoretical analysis of the licensing mechanisms of nominal ellipsis should take the following observations into account. First, the acquisition of nominal ellipsis by French and Dutch children proceeds essentially in the same way, even though the adult languages differ. Second, as proposed in previous studies, not the presence of a determiner or inflecti.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide