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 Jose Lema, Esthela Trevino.

• Superior document: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, v. 157
• Author: Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages Mexico City, Mexico)
• TeilnehmendeR: Lema, Jose.; Trevino, Esthela.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 157.
• Physical Description: viii, 379 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Prefacev -- Antonia Androutsopoulou -- Genitives in Aromanian dialects1 -- Deborah Arteaga -- On optionality in the Minimalist Program and -- Old French word order23 -- Jennifer Austin, Maria Blume, David Parkinson, -- Zelmira Nfniez 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 long53 -- Andrea Calabrese -- Some remarks on the Latin case system and its -- development in Romance71 -- R6jean Canac Marquis & Mireille Tremblay -- The Wh-Feature and the syntax of restrictive and non-restrictive -- relatives in French and English127 -- Maria M. Carreira -- A constraint-based approach to Spanish spirantization143 -- Juan Carlos Castillo -- A syntactic account of perfective and possessive verb selection -- in Romance languages159 -- Domnita Dumitrescu & Mario Saltarelli -- Two types of predicate modification. Evidence from -- the articulated adjectives of Romanian175 -- Randall S. Gess -- Alignment and sonority in the syllable structure of Late Latin -- and Gallo-Romance193 -- Javier Gutierrez Rexach & Luis Silva Villar -- Locative and temporal weak proforms205 -- David Heap -- Optimalizing Iberian clitic sequences227 -- Ken Johnson -- The development of proclitics and enclitics in Middle French249 -- Juana M. Liceras, Biana Laguardia, Zara Fernindez, -- Raquel Fernandez & Lourdes Diaz -- Licensing and identification of null categories in Spanish -- non-native grammars263 -- Fernando Martinez-Gil -- On the spelling distinction b vs. u/v and the status of -- spirantization in Old Spanish283 -- Francisco Ocampo -- PPs without Ps in spoken Rioplatense Spanish317 -- Francisco Ord6iez -- The inversion construction in interrogatives in Spanish -- and Catalan329 -- Sylvia Zetterstrand -- Scalar effects in Italian metaphony351 -- Index of Authors367 -- Index of Terms & Concepts373 -- Index of Languages & Language Families378.