Romance Linguistics 2006: Selected Papers from the 36th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New Brunswick, March 31-April 2, 2006José Camacho This volume presents selected papers from the 36th LSRL conference held at Rutgers University in 2006. It contains twenty-two articles of current approaches to the study of Romance linguistics. Well-known researchers present their findings in areas such as of syntax and semantics, phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics. The volume contains scholarly research in areas such as parenthetical null topic construction, expletives, number and language change, performative verbs in colonial court Spanish, aspect shift, palatilization in Romanian, melodic contours in Majorcan Catalan, variation in verb type and position, and deviance in early child bilingualism among many others. It is a well-rounded selection of research topics that will enrich and widen our understanding of Romance languages. |
Contents
Parenthetical Null Topic Constructions in Romance | 1 |
Syntax and Semantics of Split Questions | 15 |
Discontinuous Whconstituents in Brazilian Portuguese | 29 |
Interpretive Deficit? Evidence from the Future Tense in L2 Spanish | 43 |
Some New Generalizations | 57 |
Rhythmic Constraints on the Distribution of Schwa in French | 81 |
Is there a difference between | 97 |
Expletives Number and Language Change | 111 |
Deviance in Early Child Bilingualism | 183 |
Topicalization in European and Brazilian Portuguese | 205 |
Verbs of Light | 219 |
Macro Events and Aspect Shift in Spanish | 233 |
Online Processing of Gender Agreement in Low Proficient English | 247 |
Evidence from Romanian | 261 |
Agree and Existential Constructions | 275 |
Basic Melodic Contours in Majorcan Catalan Shape and Alignments | 289 |
Performative Verbs in Spanish Monolingual and Bilingual Colonial Court | 127 |
The Romanian Puzzle | 141 |
A Phase Theory Account | 155 |
Inversion in WhQuestions in Child Romance and Child English | 169 |
Perceptual Properties of Palatalization in Romanian | 303 |
A Compositional Analysis of MannerofMotion Verbs in Italian | 319 |
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