Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias

This is the first generative-oriented volume ever published about Asturian and Asturian Galician, two Romance languages which, along with their intrinsic interest, are crucial to understand the parametric distance between Spanish and Galician / Portuguese. Its chapters offer new insights about old puzzles, like pronominal enclisis or apparent violations of bans on clitic combinatorics, but they also deal with less explored grounds, like aspect, negation or prosody. Chapters make special emphasis on how the concerned issues result from complex interactions between syntax proper and its interfaces with sound and meaning. The book focuses on particular aspects of Asturian and Asturian Galician, as well as on some effects of their contact with Spanish in their corresponding locations Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias Editorial page Title page Editorial page Table of contents List of contributors List of reviewers Chapter 1. Northern soul: A brief guide to the linguistic diversity of Asturias 1. Introduction 2. Some relevant features of the languages of Asturias 3. Previous generative approaches to the languages of Asturias 4. This book Acknowledgements Funding Abbreviations References Chapter 2. Asturian and Asturian Spanish at the syntax-phonology interface: Cliticization phenomena and beyond 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical background: The Copy Theory of Movement 2.1 Pronounce lower copy/Lower copy pronunciation 3. This is PF’s doing: Asturian and Asturian Spanish clitics 3.1 Proclisis and enclisis in Asturian finite contexts 3.2 Clitic directionality in infinitival imperatives in Asturian Spanish 3.3 Optionality in certain infinitival environments in Asturian 4. Additional constructions amenable to a PLC/LCP account: The case of postverbal subjects in constituent questions in Asturian 5. Concluding remarks Abbreviations References Chapter 3. Semantic anchoring: Evidence from Asturian clitic placement 1. Introduction 2. Previous approaches to enclisis/proclisis alternations 3. Fin° and clitics: A cartographic account of enclisis/proclisis 4. The role of Fin° in deriving enclisis/proclisis in matrix and embedded contexts 5. Force°/Fin° selection and semantic [epistemic] interpretation 6. Further evidence: Multiple embedding in Asturian 7. Concluding remarks Acknowledgements Abbreviations References Chapter 4. Are Asturian clitics distinctly distinct? 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical background: Clitic clusters and Distinctness 3. Distinctness in Asturian clitics: A first insight from history 4. Distinctness mayday: Locatives to the rescue 5. Some theoretical consequences concerning the internal composition of clitics 6. Concluding remarks Acknowledgements Funding Abbreviations References Chapter 5. ¿Qué che femos con el che?: Some properties of the ethical dative ‘che’ in Asturian Galician 1. Introduction 2. The syntax of clitic pronouns 3. Syntactic characterization of ED che in Asturian Galician 3.1 Compatibility with other kinds of datives 3.2 Incompatibility with phrasal associates 3.3 Invisibility to the Person-Case Constraint (PCC) 4. Towards an explanation and some of its consequences 5. Conclusions Acknowledgements Funding Abbreviations References Chapter 6. Pluractional perfects in Eonavian Spanish 1. Introduction 2. EoS Perfect constructions and Standard Spanish 2.1 The basic facts 2.2 Monoclausality 3. Event level restrictions on EoS perfects 3.1 Pluractionality 3.2 Dynamicity 3.3 Experientiality (subjects) 4. Temporo-aspectual restrictions on the EoS perfects 5. (Micro)variation in pluractional perfects Acknowledgements Abbreviations References Chapter 7. Middle formation and inalienability in Asturian 1. Introduction 2. Structural properties of middle-passives 3. Two positions for preverbal datives in middle-passive contexts 4. The analysis 5. Conclusion Abbreviations References Chapter 8. Negation in Asturian: Pragmatic differences at the syntax-phonology interface 1. Introduction 2. The pragmatic notion of metalinguistic negation 3. Negation in Asturian: A general overview 3.1 Previous discourse legitimisation 3.2 Intolerance to morphological manifestation 3.3 Inability to legitimise items with negative polarity 3.4 Compatibility with positive polarity items 3.5 Impact on the position of clitics 4. Nun, ΣP and the syntax of polarity in Asturian 4.1 ΣP and sentence structure in Asturian 4.2 Polarity constraints on clitic position 5. The syntax of metalinguistic negation 5.1 Non: A metalinguistic negation marker 5.2 The interplay between Σ and C 6. Concluding remarks Abbreviations Funding References Chapter 9. Intonational form and speaker belief in Mieres Asturian polar questions 1. Introduction 1.1 The intonation of Asturian 2. Methods 2.1 Aims of this study 2.2 Participants 2.3 Materials 2.4 Procedure 2.5 Intonational analysis 3. Results 3.1 Description of the intonation contours 3.2 DCT results 4. Discussion 5. Conclusion References Chapter 10. Minority language bilingualism and its role in L3 lexical acquisition: The case of Asturian 1. Introduction 1.1 Bilingual advantages 1.2 Lexical fluency 1.3 Minority language L3 acquisition 1.4 Bilingualism and diglossia in Asturies 2. Methodology 2.1 Research questions and hypotheses 2.2 Participants 2.3 Bilingual language profile (BLP) 2.4 Experimental tasks: Procedures & analysis 3. Results 3.1 L&V task 3.2 Lexical fluency 3.3 Bilingual language profile 4. Discussion 5. Conclusion References Index "This is the first generative-oriented volume ever published about Asturian and Asturian Galician, two Romance languages which, along with their intrinsic interest, are crucial to understand the parametric distance between Spanish and Galician/Portuguese. Its chapters offer new insights about old puzzles, like pronominal enclisis or apparent violations of bans on clitic combinatorics, but they also explore less explored grounds, like aspect, negation or prosody. Chapters make special emphasis on how the concerned issues result from complex interactions between syntax proper and its interfaces with sound and meaning. The book focuses on particular aspects of Asturian and Asturian Galician, as well as on some effects of their contact with Spanish in their corresponding locations"-- Provided by publisher