Romance Languages And Linguistic Theory 2003: Selected Papers from 'Going Romance' 2003, Nijmegen, 20-22 November (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and ... IV: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)

Annotation The annual Going Romance conference is the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are tested. Starting with the thirteenth conference held in 1999, volumes with selected papers of the conferences are published under the title Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, This is the fifth such volume, containing a selection of papers that have been presented at the seventeenth Going Romance conference, held at the Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands) from 20 22 November 2003. The three-day program included a workshop on Diachronic Phonology . The present volume contains a broad range of articles dealing not only with syntax and phonology, but also with morphology, semantics and acquisition of the Romance languages An Integrated Approach To Variation In Ot : Evidence From Brazilian Portuguese And Picard / Walcir Cardoso -- On Facts In The Syntax And Semantics Of Italian / Denis Delfitto -- On The Status Of Stems In Morphological Theory / David Embick And Morris Halle -- Italian [vn] Compound Nouns : A Case For A Syntactic Approach To Word Formation / Franca Ferrari-bridgers -- The Development Of Liquids From Latin To Campidanian Sardinian : The Role Of Contrast And Structural Similarity / Chiara Frigeni -- Clitic Placement And The Position Of Subjects In The History Of European Portuguese / Charlotte Galves And Maria Clara Paixao De Sousa. Edited By Twan Geerts, Ivo Van Ginneken, Haike Jacobs. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.