New perspectives on Romance linguistics. Volume I, Morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics : selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005

This is the first of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote address delivered by Denis Bouchard on exaptation and linguistic explanation, as well as seventeen contributions by emerging and internationally recognized scholars of Spanish, French, Italian, as well as Rumanian. While the emphasis bears on formal analyses, the coverage is remarkably broad, as topics range from morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and language acquisition. Each article seeks to represent a new perspective on these topics and a variety of frameworks and concepts are exploited: distributive morphology, entailment theory, grammaticalization, information structure, left-periphery, polarity lattice, spatial individuation, thematic hierarchy, etc. This volume will challenge anyone interested in current issues in theoretical Romance Linguistics. New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics......Page 2 Editorial page......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 LCC data......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8 INTRODUCTION......Page 10 A POLARITY-SENSITIVE DISJUNCTION......Page 16 TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT ROMANCE VN COMPOUNDS......Page 28 BEYOND DESCRIPTIVISM......Page 42 DO SUBJECTS HAVE A PLACE IN SPANISH?......Page 66 ON THE CONCEPTUAL ROLE OF NUMBER......Page 82 THE DIACHRONIC DEVELOPMENT OF A FRENCH INDEFINITE PRONOUN......Page 98 A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF ITALIAN DE-VERBAL NOUNS......Page 112 V-N COMPOUNDS IN ITALIAN......Page 128 A REINTERPRETATION OF QUIRKY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA IN SPANISH......Page 142 COGNITIVE CONSTRAINTS ON ASSERTION SCOPE......Page 158 AVANT QUE- OR AVANT DE-CLAUSES......Page 170 NULL DIRECTIONAL PREPOSTIONS IN ROMANIAN AND SPANISH......Page 184 A UNIFIED ACCOUNT FOR THE ADDITIVE AND THE SCALAR USES OF ITALIAN NEPPURE......Page 202 DEFAULT MORPHOLOGY IN SECOND LANGUAGE SPANISH......Page 216 EARLY OBJECT OMISSION IN CHILD FRENCH AND ENGLISH......Page 228 AGREEMENT PARADIGMS ACROSS MOODS AND TENSES......Page 244 ITALIAN VOLERCI: LEXICAL VERB OR FUNCTIONAL HEAD?......Page 262 RESTRUCTURING OF REVERSE PSYCHOLOGICAL PREDICATES......Page 278 SUBJECT INDEX......Page 294 The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY......Page 298 Annotation. This is the second of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote addresses delivered by Prof. Jacques Durand on the Phonology of Contemporary French Project and Prof. John Charles Smith on skeuomorphy and refunctionalization. It also includes eleven contributions by reputed scholars on topics ranging from phonetics, phonology, morphophonology, dialectology, sociolinguistics and language variation. Formal phonology papers favor the model of Optimality Theory, while phonetic measurements serve as the basis for sociolinguistic and dialectometric studies. Many of these studies emphasize new comparative, typological approaches to Romance data (including many non-standard varieties of French, Italian and Spanish). This volume will be of interest to all Romance linguists. v. 1. Morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics / edited by Chiyo Nishida, Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil v. 2. Phonetics, phonology and dialectology / edited by Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil