Theoretical Analyses on Romance Languages: Selected Papers from the 26th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVI), Mexico City, 28-30 March, 1996

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by  José Lema, Esthela Treviño (Eds.)

THEORETICAL ANALYSES ON ROMANCE LANGUAGES
AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND
HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE
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Volume 157
José Lema and Esthela Treviño (eds)
Theoretical Analyses on Romance Languages.
Selected papers from the 26th Linguistic Symposium on Romance
Languages (LSRL XXVI), Mexico City, 28-30 March 1996.
THEORETICAL
ANALYSES ON ROMANCE
LANGUAGES
SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE 26TH LINGUISTIC
SYMPOSIUM ON ROMANCE LANGUAGES (LSRL XXVI),
MEXICO CITY, 28-30 MARCH 1996
Edited by
JOSÉ LEMA
ESTHELA TREVIÑO
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana -I, Mexico City
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Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (26th : 1996 : Mexico City, Mexico)
Theoretical analyses on Romance languages : selected papers from the 26th Linguistic Symposium
on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVI), Mexico City, 28-30 March, 1996 / edited by José Lema and
Esthela Treviño.
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PREFACE
This volume offers a selection of works presented at the XXVI Linguistic
Symposium on Romance Languages, celebrated at La Casa de la Primera Im
prenta de América, of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa,
(UAM-l), Mexico City. In many respects, the XXVI version of the LSRL was a
very important event. Being this the first time to be organized beyond the
United States and Canada frontiers, it raised high expectations in the linguistics
community, but most fundamentally amongst our mexican colleagues. In
deed, 130 abstracts were received, with topics on phonology, syntax, pho
nology-morphology, the syntax-semantics interface, language acquisition, and
sociolinguistics. Unlike previous LSRL events, a high number of papers in pho
nology were presented, an area that has remained marginally present in LSRL
tradition. Nonetheless, due to a rich set of native existent languages in Mexico,
the phonology sessions had a great impact especially amongst the mexican
linguists, but also among the general attending participants at the Conference.
Papers on first and second language acquisition were also high in number ac
cording to usual standards, and we think that this fact contributed significantly
to realize among the audience the importance of including in events such as this
one, research problems directly dealt with from an acquisition perspective. We
must acknowledge the fact that a most suscessful LSRL Conference brought
about an immediate profit for linguistics at the UAM-I. We now know that the
field in general, has also benefited greatly as students and scholars from other
universities have become increasingly interested in our discipline.
Most of the grammatical phenomena dealt with in the articles in this vol
ume are worked in the light of the Minimalist Program, the Distributed Mor
phology, and the Optimality Theory frameworks. These recent theoretical
developments have motivated reconsidering known or previously discussed
grammatical problems under what are felt as new and promising lines of in
quiry. Likewise, these developments have greatly contributed to gaining new
insights and better explanations for a wide range of phenomena. It was appar
ent from the diversity of the papers delivered, that these approaches are open
ing up new venues to inquiry, as well as exposing novel phenomena, which, no
vi PREFACE
doubt, enrich and widen our knowledge and understanding of language. The
analyses undertaken in the articles here collected range over a variety of dia
lects of Romance languages: Spanish, French, Catalan, Italian, Latin, Aroma-
nian and Portuguese.
We greatly thank the participation of our three main invited speakers: An
drea Calabrese (Harvard University, Latin Morphology), Richard Kayne (City
University of New York, French Syntax), and Gemma Rigau (Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalan Syntax and Semantics), as well as that of the
other forty participants who visited Mexico City and the House of the First
Printing Press in America. Unfortunately, we were unable to reproduce in this
volume the entire conference; some articles have been left out by choice of the
authors. The participating reviewers helped us organize a most interesting
event, and its outcome, the present book.
We would like to acknowledge, for their unrestricted and encouraging sup
port, the Rector General of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Dr.
Julio Rubio Oca; the Rector of the UAM-I, Dr. José Luis Gázquez Mateos; the
Dean of the División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Mtro. Gregorio
Vidal. We must also thank for their technical and moral support, Patricia
Reyes, Isabel Almaraz and Blanca Moctezuma. We must credit Javier Torres
Oyarzún for his expert and careful technical edition of the present volume;
Karen Zagona for her many helpful tips regarding the publication; and Konrad
Koerner for his concern in maintaining the present collection. Some of our
activities were sponsored by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología,
grant No. 40200-5-04545H.
José Lema & Estílela Treviño
UAM-I, Mexico City,
November 1997
CONTENTS
Preface v
Antonia Androutsopoulou
Genitives in Aromanian dialects 1
Deborah Arteaga
On optionality in the Minimalist Program and
Old French word order 23
Jennifer Austin, Maria Blume, David Parkinson,
Zelmira Núñez del Prado, Barbara Lust
Interactions between pragmatic and syntactic knowledge in the first
language acquisition of Spanish null and overt pronominals 35
Barbara E. Bullock
The myth of equivalence: Where two lights do not make a long ... 53
Andrea Calabrese
Some remarks on the Latin case system and its
development in Romance 71
Réjean Canac Marquis & Mireille Tremblay
The Wh-Feature and the syntax of restrictive and non-restrictive
relatives in French and English 127
Maria M. Carreira
A constraint-based approach to Spanish spirantization 143
Juan Carlos Castillo
A syntactic account of perfective and possessive verb selection
in Romance languages 159
Domnita Dumitrescu & Mario Saltarelli
Two types of predicate modification. Evidence from
the articulated adjectives of Romanian 175
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Randall S. Gess
Alignment and sonority in the syllable structure of Late Latin
and Gallo-Romance 193
Javier Gutiérrez Rexach & Luis Silva Villar
Locative and temporal weak proforms 205
David Heap
Optimalizing Iberian clitic sequences 227
Ken Johnson
The development of proclitics and enclitics in Middle French .... 249
Juana M. Liceras, Biana Laguardia, Zara Fernández,
Raquel Fernández & Lourdes Díaz
Licensing and identification of null categories in Spanish
non-native grammars 263
Fernando Martínez-Gil
On the spelling distinction b vs. u/v and the status of
spirantization in Old Spanish 283
Francisco Ocampo
PPs without Ps in spoken Rioplatense Spanish 317
Francisco Ordóñez
The inversion construction in interrogatives in Spanish
and Catalan 329
Sylvia Zetterstrand
Scalar effects in Italian metaphony 351
Index of Authors 367
Index of Terms & Concepts 373
Index of Languages & Language Families 378
GENITIVES IN AROMANIAN DIALECTS*
ANTONIA ANDROUTSOPOULOU
University of California, Los Angeles
1. Introduction
The paper deals primarily with the formation of Genitive in Aromanian
dialects spoken in Greece.1 The dialect of Kruševo, Former Yugoslav Repub­
lic of Macedonia, will be also discussed. Aromanian belongs to the Romance
languages spoken South of the Danube. According to Ethnologue (1988), it
split from Rumanian, Meglenoromanian, and Istro-Rumanian, the other East­
ern Romance languages between 500 and 1,000 AD. Aromanian speakers live
in Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Mace­
donia, with the largest concentration of them in Greece, currently circa 50,000
(Ethnologue (1988)). Aromanian dialects in Greece are distinguished in North­
ern and Southern ones (Katsanis and Dinas (1990)) (the terms North and South
not in all cases strictly corresponding to the geographical distribution of the
speakers).
I have drawn my data mainly from Katsanis and Dinas (1990), a concise
grammar of the Aromanian of Greece, Koltsidas (1978), a description of the
Aromanian of Greece, Golab (1984), a study of the Aromanian of Krusevo,
and the texts in Exarhos (1986), Rohlshoven (1989), Padioti (1988) (for the
Aromanian of Metsovo) and Golab (1984) (for the Aromanian of Krusevo). 1
have also consulted Capidan (1932), a basic work on Aromanian, Caragiu-
Mariot, eanu (1968) and Papahagi (1974).
Aromanian dialects exhibit a three way variation in the formation of geni­
tive along the lines in (1):
* I wish to thank H. Koopman, and D. Sportiche for discussion, and the audiences of LSRL XXV
(University of Washington, Seattle, 1995) and LSRL XXVI (Universidad Autónoma Metropoli­
tana, México DF, 1996) and the Colloquium Graeco-Romanica, (Aristotle University of Thessa­
loniki, 1996) for comments on the contents of this paper. I am also indebted to M.
Español-Echevarría for his very useful written comments. The usual disclaimers apply.
1 Greek authors, who are also native speakers of the language (Katsanis and Dinas (1990) and
Koltsidas (1978)), refer to it as Koutsovlahiki (Koutsovlach).