East and West of the Pentacrest : : Linguistic Studies in Honor of Paula Kempchinsky.

• Superior document: Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Series ; v.33
• Author: Gupton, Timothy.
• TeilnehmendeR: Gielau, Elizabeth.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2021.; Ã2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (227 pages)

This book is a collection of contemporary essays and squibs exploring the mental representation of Spanish and other languages in the Romance family.

Table of Contents

Intro -- East and West of The Pentacrest -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. Crosslinguistic explorations at the interfaces -- II. Innovative approaches to clitics and noun phrases in Romance -- References -- Part I. Crosslinguistic explorations at the interfaces -- Chapter 1. Interpretation of focus in Haitian Creole se-clefts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 What is focus? -- 2.2 French and Haitian Creole clefts -- 2.3 The syntax of se-clefts -- 2.4 Past accounts of the interpretation of (se-)clefts -- 2.5 Exhaustivity -- 3. Research questions and hypotheses -- 4. Empirical data -- 4.1 Contrast and intensity in predicate clefts -- 4.2 Exhaustivity inference -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2. Aligning syntax and prosody in Galician: Against a prosodic isomorphism account -- 1. Background -- 2. Review of the literature -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusions and further directions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix I. Stimuli list -- Appendix II. Pitch measurements by syllable for each context type -- Chapter 3. Why does D-linking reduce the need for inversion in Spanish wh-questions? -- 1. The D-linking phenomenon -- 2. Towards a solution -- 3. Implications for the analysis of inversion -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4. Negation and mood in epistemic contexts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Farkas (2003) -- 3. Cross-linguistic variation in negated epistemic contexts -- 4. The interpretation of negation in epistemic contexts -- 5. Emotive verbs and metalinguistic negation -- 6. Conclusion -- Dedication -- References -- Chapter 5. The complicated timeline of Spanish: Implications for lexical processing -- Preamble -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Irregularities abound -- 2.1 Cultismos.

2.2 Words borrowed from other languages -- 3. Regularities arise -- 4. Implications -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Part II. Innovative approaches to clitics and noun phrases in Romance -- Chapter 6. Me gohtaba ehta linguaji barranquenha: Variable object clitics in Barranquenho -- Dedication -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Introduction to Barranquenho -- 2.1 Barranquenho as a mixed language -- 2.2 The evolutionary model of language change -- 3. POCs in Spanish, European Portuguese and Barranquenho -- 4. Research questions and hypotheses -- 5. Method -- 5.1 Analysis -- 5.2 Exclusions -- 6. Results and discussion -- 6.1 Placement -- 6.2 Doubling -- 7. General discussion -- 8. Limitations and future research -- 9. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix. Distribution of individual clitic forms -- Chapter 7. Spanish impersonal se in control infinitivals and the ungrammaticality of se se sequences -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Assumptions regarding Impse -- 2.1 Impse spells out T[D] -- 2.2 Projected prose -- 3. The non-referentiality of prose -- 3.1 Prose does not introduce a discourse referent -- 4. Impse in infinitives -- 5. The features of se -- 5.1 The phi-features of prose -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8. Case assignment in Spanish nominalizations: A self-paced reading investigation -- Dedication -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Internal structure of the Spanish Determiner Phrase -- 3. Data and nominalization paradigms -- 4. Additional nominal properties -- 5. Additional verbal properties -- 5.1 Agents/subjects -- 5.2 Themes/objects -- 5.3 Adverbs, tense, and outer/inner aspect -- 6. Alexiadou et al. (2011) -- 7. Methodology and predictions -- 7.1 Participants -- 7.2 Materials -- 8. Results -- 8.1 Data treatment and analysis -- 8.2 Results: Analysis of reading times -- 9. Discussion and conclusions -- References.

Chapter 9. Dual competence in dual language learners: Gradience and variability of object clitics in Spanish heritage language learners -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Direct object clitics -- 2.1 Clitic distribution -- 2.2 Theoretical accounts of clitic acquisition and optionality -- 3. The present study -- 3.1 Rationale and research hypotheses for the current study -- 3.2 Participants -- 3.3 Data collection -- 4. Data, analysis and discussion -- 4.1 Clitic production data (simple and complex predicates) -- 4.2 Data interpretation and discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index.