Issues and theory in romance linguistics: selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XXIII, April 1-4, 1993

1023 Pages·1994·4.29 MB·English

by  Michael Lee Mazzola

Issues and Theory in Romance Linguistics :
Selected Papers From the Linguistic
title:
Symposium On Romance Languages XXIII,
April 1-4, 1993
author: Mazzola, Michael Lee.
publisher: Georgetown University Press
isbn10 | asin: 0878402438
print isbn13: 9780878402434
ebook isbn13: 9780585281902
language: English
subject Romance languages--Congresses.
publication date: 1994
lcc: PC11.L53 1993eb
ddc: 440
subject: Romance languages--Congresses.
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Issues and Theory in Romance Linguistics
Selected Papers from the Linguistic Symposium on
Romance Languages XXIII
April 1-4, 1993
Edited by Michael L. Mazzola
Northern Illinois University
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Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C. 20057-1079
© 1994 by Georgetown University Press. All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Pulication Data
Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (23rd : 1993 : Northern
Illinois University
Issues and theory in romance linguistics : selected papers from the
Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XXIII / Michael L.
Mazzola, editor.
p. cm.
1. Romance languagesCongresses. I. Mazzola, Michael Lee.
II. Title
PC11.L53 1993
440dc20
ISBN 0-87840-243-8 93-36991
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ad memoriam perpetuandam
matris
Maryann Mazzola
August 15, 1917February 29, 1988
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I
Phonology
Preface ix
Does the French Syllable Have Weight? 3
Barbara E. Bullock, Penn State University
Accentual Stability 19
Luigi Burzio and Elvira DiFabio
Johns Hopkins University & Harvard University
Secondary Stress and Stress Clash Resolution in French: 35
An Empirical Investigation
Steven R. Hoskins, University of Delaware
Catalexis and Stress in Romance 49
Haike Jacobs, University of Nijmegen
Spanish Stops, Spirants and Glides: From Consonantal to 67
[Vocalic]
John M. Lipski, University of New Mexico
Historical Vowel Lengthening in Romance: The Role of 87
Sonority and Foot Structure
Pilar Prieto, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Phonological Interfaces in Italian 109
Irene Vogel, University of Delaware
II
Syntax
Italian Adverbial Agreement 129
Nancy Mae Antrim, University of Southern California
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Impersonal Constructions in Old French 141
Deborah Arteaga, University of Nevada at Las Vegas
On the Nature of Subject Clitics in Picard 159
Julie Auger, University of Pennsylvania & University of
Chicago
On Some Properties of Agreement-Object in Italian and 181
Brazilian Portuguese
Valentina Bianchi, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Maria Cristina Figueiredo Silva, Université de Genève
Transparency Effects in the Romance Languages 199
Reineke Bok-Bennema & Brigitte Kampers-Manhe
Groningen University
Notes on Topicalization and Object Drop in Spanish 219
J. Clancy Clements, Indiana University
A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Romance Clitic 239
Constructions
Sarah Cummins and Yves Roberge, University of Toronto
That's a Problem We Can Trace to the Complementizer 259
Richard Danford and Kutz Arrieta-Stemen
The Ohio State University
Against V-to-C in French Complex Inversion 271
Maarten de Wind, University of Groningen
Catalan Possessives: Extraction from DP and Strong 285
Crossover
Natàlia Díaz-Insensé, Cornell University

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Finiteness in Romance vs. English Parasitic Gap 303
Constructions
Pilar García Mayo and Paula Kempchinsky
University of Iowa
Psych Pronominals and a Uniform Account of French Se 317
Julia Herschensohn, University of Washington
The Syntactic Licensing of VP-Ellipsis: A Comparative 333
Study of Spanish and English
Luis López, Cornell University
Causative Constructions in French and Portuguese 355
Nicole Maier, University of Iowa
Blocking Effects of A-Spec,TP in German and Spanish 367
Enrique Mallén, University of Florida
Impersonality in Non-Finite Contexts: The Spanish Se 385
Construction in the and Raising Environments
Amaya Mendikoetxea, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
On Case and Agreement in Spanish and English DPS 403
Claudia Parodi, UCLA
Against Optional Movement for Clitic Climbing 417
Johan Rooryck, Indiana University/University of Leiden
Voice in Latin and Romance: On the Representation of 445
Lexical Subjects
Mario Saltarelli, University of Southern California