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.