Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001: Selected Papers from "Going Romance", Amsterdam, 6-8 December 2001

362 Pages·2003·28.58 MB·English

by  Josep Quer (Ed.)

2001
ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTIC THEORY
AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND
HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE
General Editor
E.F. KONRAD KOERNER
(Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie
und Universalienforschung, Berlin)
Series IV – CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY
Advisory Editorial Board
Raimo Anttila (Los Angeles); Lyle Campbell (Christchurch, N.Z.)
Sheila Embleton (Toronto); John E. Joseph (Edinburgh)
Manfred Krifka (Berlin); Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin)
E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.); Hans-Jürgen Sasse (Köln)
Volume 245
Josep Quer, Jan Schroten, Mauro Scorretti, Petra Sleeman and
Els Verheugd (eds.)
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001: Selected papers from ‘Going
Romance’ 2001, Amsterdam, 6–8 December
ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND
2001
LINGUISTIC THEORY
SELECTED PAPERS FROM ‘GOING ROMANCE’
2001
AMSTERDAM, 6–8 DECEMBER
Edited by
JOSEP QUER
University of Barcelona
JAN SCHROTEN
Utrecht University
MAURO SCORRETTI
PETRA SLEEMAN
ELS VERHEUGD
University of Amsterdam
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY
AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA
TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American
8 National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed
Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Romance languages and linguistic theory 2001: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Amsterdam,
6–8 December 2001 / edited by Josep Quer ... [et al.]
p. cm. -- (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current
issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763 ; v. 245)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Romance languages--Congresses. I. Quer i Carbonell, Josep, 1962-. II. Series.
PC11 .R63 2003
440--dc22 2003045130
ISBN 90 272 4757 9 (Eur.) / 1 58811 445 7 (US) (Hb; alk. paper)
© 2003 – John Benjamins B.V.
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other
means, without written permission from the publisher.
John Benjamins Publishing Co. • P.O.Box 36224 • 1020 ME Amsterdam • The Netherlands
John Benjamins North America • P.O.Box 27519 • Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 • USA
INTRODUCTION
Going Romance is a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically
relevant research on Romance languages; it is an international initiative of the
Dutch university community involved in research on Romance languages. The
proceedings volumes, titled Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, contain
the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, which have been
organized by and held at the various universities of the country. The first volume
contained the selected papers of the thirteenth conference, held in 1999.
This is the third proceedings volume. The articles form 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 through December 8.
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.
The editors would like to thank everyone who contributed to the success of
Going Romance XV. Next to some of the editors, the organization committee
consisted of Ileana Comorovski (Université de Nancy 2), Denis Delfitto
(Utrecht, UiL OTS), Jenny Doetjes (Utrecht, UiL OTS), Frank Drijkoningen
(Utrecht, UiL OTS), Aafke Hulk (Amsterdam, HIL), Brigitte Kampers -Manhe
(Groningen, CLCG).
The selection committee for the more than fifty abstracts for the main session
and the workshop consisted of editors and organizers and was assisted by the
invited speakers João Costa (Lisbon), Richard Kayne (New York), Brenda Laca
(Paris 8), Giuseppe Longobardi (Trieste), Luigi Rizzi (Siena), Liliane Tasmowski
(Antwerp), Karen Zagona (Washington) and by the following independent
advisors: Leonie Bosveld (Groningen, CLGC), Francis Corblin (Paris 4
Sorbonne), Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (Paris 7), Jenny Doetjes (Utrecht, UiL OTS),
Jean-Marie Marandin (Paris 7), Johan Rooryck (Leiden, HIL) and Lucia Tovena
(Lille 3).
VI INTRODUCTION
The organizers and the editors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the
Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC), the Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands
Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Utrecht institute of Linguistics
OTS (UiL OTS), the Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics (HIL), and the
determiner group of the PICS project 'Formal semantics and French data' (co-
funded by CNRS and NWO).
Finally, we wish to thank Ans de Kok, who took care of Web support. We wish to
give special thanks to Jasper Roodenburg for his invaluable assistance in
organizing Going Romance 2001.
Josep Quer
Jan Schroten
Mauro Scorretti
Petra S leeman
Els Verheugd
CONTENTS
Spanish De-Clauses Are Not Always in the Right Mood 1
Luis Alonso-Ovalle
Mood and Focus 17
Claudia Borgonovo
Null vs Overt Spec,TP in European Portuguese 31
João Costa
Determiner Architecture and Phrasal Movement in French Lexifier Creoles 49
Viviane Déprez
On the Relation between Focus, Prosody and Word Order in Romanian 75
Edward Göbbel
Economy of Structure. The Case of Subject Clitics in Piedmontese 93
Cecilia Goria
Identificational Focus vs Contrastive Focus. A Syntactic Distinction 113
Daniela Isac
Null Objects and VP Ellipsis in European and Brazilian Portuguese 131
Mary Aizawa Kato
From Non-Identity to Plurality. French Différent as an Adjective and
as a Determiner 155
Brenda Laca & Liliane Tasmowski
On the Non-Unitariness of NP Subject Inversion. A Comparison of French
NP Subject Inversion in Interrogatives and Temporal Subordinates 177
Karen Lahousse
viii CONTENTS
Past Participle Agreement with Pronominal Clitics and the Auxiliary Verbs
in Italian and French 193
Paul Law
Deficient Pronouns and Linguistic Change in Portuguese and Spanish 213
Ana Maria Martins
Nominalizations of French Psychological Verbs. Syntactic Complements 231
and Semantic Participants
Judith Meinschaefer
Notes on Vocative Case. A Case Study in Clause Structure 247
Andrea Moro
Mapping out the Left Periphery of the Clause. Evidence from
North Western Italian Varieties 263
Sandra Paoli
The Left Periphery in Child French. Evidence for a Simply-Split CP 279
Dorian Roehrs & Marie Labelle
Plural Indefinite DPs as Plural-Polarity Items 295
Benjamin Spector
On the Status of the Partitive Determiner in Italian 315
Gianluca Storto
Determiners and Weakly Discretised Domains 331
Lucia Tovena
Index of languages and dialects 347
Subject Index 349
SPANISH DE-CLAUSES ARE NOT ALWAYS
IN THE RIGHT MOOD*
LUIS ALONSO-OVALLE
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1. latridou's question
The benchmark theory of conditionals maintains that conditionals quantify
over a contextually restricted domain of worlds (Kratzer 1991). They are modal
statements. The antecedent contributes to the interpretation of the whole
conditional a proposition, a set of worlds. Conditionals quantify over a
contextually restricted domain of worlds in which the proposition that the
antecedent expresses is true. This is all antecedents do. In particular, the semantic
import of its tense and mood inflection is neglected: it is - at most - a merely
formal reflection of the type of modal in the consequent (Fintel 1998; Heim
1992; Kratzer 1991).
This last assumption has been recently challenged. The dissection of
counterfactual conditionals (latridou 2000; Ippolito 2001) has led to questioning
the semantic import of the antecedent's inflection and to wondering whether the
inflections of both the antecedent and the consequent are interpreted. This is, in
short, Iatridou's question.
(1) Iatridou's question: Is the tense/mood marking of both the antecedent
and the consequent interpreted?1
This paper reflects my views on the topic at the time when it was presented at Going Romance.
They have changed slightly since then (see Alonso-Ovalle, in preparation). For practical purposes. I
have limited myself here to the exposition of the original ideas and made no attempt to incorporate
my new views.
Thanks to Shai Cohen, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Kevin Klement, Paula Menéndez-Benito, Josep
Quer, Mike Terry, two anonymous reviewers and the audience of Going Romance 2001. Special
thanks to Roger Higgins for his incisive comments on different parts of this work; to Barbara Partee
for her sharp insights, her enthusiasm and benevolence with too often too poorly developed
observations. 1 am indebted to Angelika Kratzer for more enouragement, help and advice - linguistic
and non-linguistic alike - than I could aknowledge here. My gratitude to Sandra Barriales for too
many hours unspent with and too many judgements asked for. Errors can only be mine.