Romance Linguistics 2008: Interactions in Romance: Selected Papers from the 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Urbana-Champaign, April 2008

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by  Karlos Arregi

ROMANCE LINGUISTICS 2008
AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND
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Karlos Arregi, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Silvina A. Montrul and Annie Tremblay (eds.)
Romance Linguistics 2008. Interactions in Romance.
Selected papers from the 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
(LSRL), Urbana-Champaign, April 2008
ROMANCE LINGUISTICS 2008
INTERACTIONS IN ROMANCE
SELECTED PAPERS FROM
THE 38TH LINGUISTIC SYMPOSIUM
ON ROMANCE LANGUAGES (LSRL),
URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, APRIL 2008
Edited by
KARLOS ARREGI
University of Chicago
ZSUZSANNA FAGYAL
SILVINA A. MONTRUL
ANNIE TREMBLAY
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Romance linguistics 2008 : interactions in romance : selected papers from the 38th linguistic
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“The papers selected for this volume were originally presented at the 38th Linguistic Sympo-
sium on Romance Languages held at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign on April 3-5,
2008. Linguists working on Romance languages from North America, South America and Europe
met to discuss the latest developments in the field of Romance linguistics.”
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Romance languages--Congresses. I. Arregi, Karlos. II. Title: Interactions in romance.
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Table of contents
Acknowledgments vii
Editors’ introduction: Interactions in Romance 1
part i. Language contact and bilingualism
Subject pronoun expression in bilinguals of two null subject languages 9
Hilary Barnes
Where are hiatuses left? A comparative study of vocalic
sequences in Argentine Spanish 2 3
Laura Colantoni & Anna Limanni
Loanword adaptation in the French of Spanish-speaking
immigrants in Montréal 3 9
Michael L. Friesner
part 2. Phonology and interfaces
Morphology and phonology of word-final vowel deletion
in spoken Tuscan Italian 5 7
Luigia Garrapa & Judith Meinschaefer
Relativization, intonational phrases and rich left peripheries in Romanian 7 3
Simona Herdan
Stress domain effects in French phonology and phonological development 8 9
Yvan Rose & Christophe dos Santos
part 3. Syntax and morphophonology
Syntactic realizations of plural in Romance and Germanic nominalizations 107
Artemis Alexiadou, Gianina Iordăchioaia & Elena Soare
 Romance Linguistics 2008
The syntax of Spanish parecer and the status of little pro 125
Adolfo Ausín
Two types of (apparently) ditransitive light verb constructions 139
María Cristina Cuervo
Modal Ellipsis in French, Spanish and Italian:
Evidence for a TP-deletion analysis 157
Anne Dagnac
Optional prepositions in Brazilian Portuguese 171
Mary A. Kato
An apparent ‘number case constraint’ in Romanian: The role of syncretism 185
Andrew Ira Nevins & Oana Săvescu
part 4. Semantics and morphology
Generic bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese 203
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin & Roberta Pires de Oliveira
Aspect shift in stative verbs and their arguments 217
Joshua Rodríguez
part 5. Psycholinguistics
Experimenting with wh-movement in Spanish 233
Grant Goodall
How Spanish phonotactics informs psycholinguistic
models of speech production 249
Michael Shelton, Chip Gerfen & Nicolás Gutiérrez Palma
Index 265
Acknowledgments
The papers selected for this volume were originally presented at the 38th Linguis-
tic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign on April 3–5, 2008. Linguists working on Romance languages from
North America, South America, and Europe met to discuss the latest develop-
ments in the field of Romance linguistics.
We gratefully acknowledge the Department of Linguistics, the Department
of French, the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, the
Center for Advanced Study, and the Beckman Institute at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for their generous financial support for this event.
The selected papers went through a rigorous double-blind review process. We
would like to express our gratitude to all the reviewers who contributed their
time and expertise:
Lourdes Aguilar, Daniel Altshuler, Julie Auger, Nicoleta Bateman, Dennis
Bouchard, Travis Bradley, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, José Camacho, Manuel Díaz-
Campos, Elena Castroviejo Miró, Sonia Colina, Laura Colantoni, João Costa,
Marie-Hélène Côté, Laurent Dekydstpotter, Mariapaola D’Imperio, Gorka Elordieta,
Olga Fernández Soriano, Anastasia Giannakidou, Alessandra Giorgi, Grant
Goodall, John Grinstead, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, David Heap, José Hualde, Tania
Ionin, Haike Jacobs, Svetlana Kaminskaïa, Paula Kempchinsky, Peter Lasersohn,
Juana Liceras, Luis López, Marta Luján, Pascual Masullo, Jaume Mateu, Jean-Pierre
Montreuil, Francisco Ordóñez, Silvia Perpiñán, François Poiré, Cecilia Poletto, Lara
Reglero, Morris Richard, Teresa Satterfield, Ryan Shosted, Roumyana Slabakova,
Brian Smith, Cristina Schmitt, Esther Torrego, Irene Vogel, Thomas Werner, Malcah
Yaeger-Dror, James Hye Suk Yoon, and María Luisa Zubizarreta.
Finally, we thank the editor of the Current Issues in Linguistic Theory series
E.F.K. Koerner for useful feedback and Anke de Looper of John Benjamins for
assisting us with the publication process.
All remaining errors are our own.
Karlos Arregi, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Silvina Montrul, Annie Tremblay
Champaign-Urbana and Chicago, Illinois
February 2010

Editors’ introduction
Interactions in Romance
This volume consists of a selection of sixteen theoretical and methodological
studies presented at the 38th Linguistic Symposium of the Romance Languages
held in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois in the spring of 2008. The unifying theme of
these papers is commonly referred to as linguistic interfaces, i.e., links between
different grammar modules (lexicon, phonology, morphology, syntax, seman-
tics), as well as between grammar and articulatory, perceptual, and cognitive-
intentional systems (e.g., Chomsky 1995, Jackendoff 2002, Ramchand & Reiss
2007). Furthermore, in addition to focusing on linguistic theory, the papers ex-
plore connections with psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, language-acquisition,
and bilingualism. The selection of Interactions in Romance as the title of the vol-
ume also reflects the fact that, in addition to addressing interdisciplinary issues,
several of the papers make significant typological-comparative contributions to
the issue of the theoretical and practical dynamic connections between Romance
and other languages. Interactions between, and interfaces within, the Romance
languages themselves, as well as between Romance languages and other languag-
es, are discussed in several papers, as all major Romance languages (Spanish,
French, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese), and many of the languages with
which they are currently in contact are represented in the volume. In order to ap-
preciate both the particular focus and the connections between the selected pa-
pers, we have organized them into five areas, as described below.
1. Language contact and bilingualism
The papers in the first section of the volume shed light on linguistic interactions
between phonology and morpho-syntax in stable societal bilingual situations.
Each paper reports on a study of bilingual individuals or communities, and seeks
to determine the effects of bilingualism on subject-pronoun expression, hiatus-
diphthong realizations, and loanword adaptation.
Barnes investigates variable patterns of subject-pronoun expression in the
speech of Spanish-Veneto adult language learners, heritage speakers, and speakers