Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001: Selected Papers from 'Going Romance'. Amsterdam, 6 - 8 December 2001 (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and ... IV: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)

The volumes __Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory__ published in the series __Current Issues in Linguistic Theory__ contain the selected papers of the __Going Romance__ conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.__Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001__ is the third such volume. It presents a selection of the papers that have been presented at the occasion of __Going Romance 2001 (XV)__ — which was held at the University of Amsterdam on December 6-8, 2001. The three-day program included a workshop on Determiners. The volume contains articles on specifics of one or more Romance languages or varieties: the architecture of the Determiner Phrase and properties of determiners, the left periphery of the sentence and clause structure, null elements and their interpretation, clitics, and other interesting phenomena in the Romance languages. Spanish De-clauses Are Not Always In The Right Mood / Luis Alonso-ovalle -- Mood And Focus / Claudia Borgonovo -- Null Vs. Overt Spec, Tp In European Portuguese / Joao Costa -- Determiner Architecture And Phrasal Movement In French Lexifier Creoles / Viviane Deprez -- On The Relation Between Focus, Prosody And Word Order In Romanian / Edward Gobbel -- Economy Of Structure. The Case Of Subject Clitics In Piedmontese / Cecilia Goria -- Identificational Focus Vs. Contrastive Focus. A Syntactic Distinction / Daniela Isac -- Null Objects And Vp Ellipsis In European And Brazilian Portuguese / Mary Aizawa Kato -- From Non-identity To Plurality. French Different As An Adjective And As A Determiner / Brenda Laca And Liliane Tasmowski -- On The Non-unitariness Of Np Subject Inversion. A Comparison Of French Np Subject Inversion In Interrogatives And Temporal Subordinates / Karen Lahousse -- Past Participle Agreement With Pronominal Clitics And The Auxiliary Verbs In Italian And French / Paul Law -- Deficient Pronouns And Linguistic Change In Portuguese And Spanish / Ana Maria Martins -- Nominalizations Of French Psychological Verbs. Syntactic Complements And Semantic Participants / Judith Meinschaefer -- Notes On Vocative Case. A Case Study In Clause Structure / Andrea Moro -- Mapping Out The Left Periphery Of The Clause. Evidence From North Western Italian Varieties / Sandra Paoli -- The Left Periphery In Child French. Evidence For A Simply-split Cp / Dorian Roehrs And Marie Labelle -- Plural Indefinite Dps As Plural-polarity Items / Benjamin Spector -- On The Status Of The Partitive Determiner In Italian / Gianluca Storto -- Determiners And Weakly Discretised Domains / Lucia Tovena. Edited By Josep Quer ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. The volumes Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory published in the series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001 is the third such volume. It presents a selection of the papers that have been presented at the occasion of Going Romance 2001 (XV) — which was held at the University of Amsterdam on December 6-8, 2001. The three-day program included a workshop on Determiners. The volume contains articles on specifics of one or more Romance languages or varieties: the architecture of the Determiner Phrase and properties of determiners, the left periphery of the sentence and clause structure, null elements and their interpretation, clitics, and other interesting phenomena in the Romance languages. This is the third proceedings volume containing a selection of papers that have been presented at the "Going Romance 2001 (XV)" conference held at the University of Amsterdam. The volume contains articles on one or more Romance languages or varieties.