Romance Languages And Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected Papers From 'Going Romance', Groningen, 28-30 November 2002 (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and ... IV: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)

The Going Romance conferences are a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. Selected papers are published in the Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory volumes. This is the fourth such volume, containing a selection of the papers that have been presented at the 2002 conference, which was held at the State University of Groningen. The three-day program included a workshop on Acquisition. The articles in this volume focalize on specifics of one or more Romance languages or varieties: clausal structure, verb-movement, topic, focus and reinforcement constructions, nominal ellipsis, (absence of) pronouns in child language, and other current issues in Romance linguistics. Tense, Quantification And Clause Structure In Ep And Bp : Evidence From A Comparative Study On Sempre / Manuela Ambar, Manuela Gonzaga And Esmeralda Negrao -- Early 'pragmatic' Competence And Its Implications Regarding The Null Subject Phenomenon / Cecile De Cat -- On The Impact Of French Subject Clitics On The Information Structure Of The Sentence / Cecile De Cat -- A Restricted View Of Head Movement / Heles Contreras -- The Effects Of Phonological Cues On The Syntax Of Focus Constructions In Spanish / Laura Dominguez -- Optional Infinitives Or Silent Auxes? : New Evidence From Romance / Cristina Dye -- Dislocation, Clitic Resumption And Minmality : A Comparative Analysis Of Left And Right Topic Constructions In Italian / Mara Frascarelli. Edited By Reineke Bok-bennema ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.