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Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition
Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000
This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, representing the areas of syntax, semantics, their interfaces, and second language acquisition. The topics addressed include movement (both wh- and head-movement), control, issues of second language acquisition related to the Determiner Phrase, the effect of word order and syntactic simplification in second language acquisition, adverbials, syntactic constraints on access to lexical structure, a semantic characterization of the subjunctive in Spanish, and impersonal constructions and impersonal reflexive pronouns. The papers in this volume not only discuss issues related to most of the major Romance languages (French, Italian, Portuguese, Rumanian and Spanish) and a Portuguese Creole, but also include comparisons with languages from other families (Marathi, Bulgarian, Polish and Slovenian). This collection of papers illustrates the richness in the field of Romance linguistics and the value of cross-linguistic research and multi-modular approaches.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 216] 2001. xii, 246 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 24 October 2011
Published online on 24 October 2011
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments | pp. v–vi
- List of contributors | pp. ix–xii
- Romance Syntax, Semantics, and L2 AcquisitionJoaquim Camps and Caroline R. Wiltshire | p. 1
- A Class of "Lite" Adverbs in FrenchAnne Abeillé and Danièle Godard | p. 9
- Adjective Position and Interpretation in L2 FrenchBruce Anderson | p. 27
- French Complex Inversion in the Light of a Minimalist ProgramCedric Boeckx | p. 43
- Optionality, Presupposition, and WH-in-situ in FrenchCedric Boeckx, Penka Stateva and Arthur Stepanov | p. 57
- Word Order Shift and Natural L2 Acquisition in a Portuguese CreoleJ. Clancy Clements | p. 73
- Unaccusativity and the Impersonal Construction of FrenchSarah Cummins | p. 89
- Shifting the DP Parameter: A study of Anglophone French L2ersRandall Gess and Julia Herschensohn | p. 105
- Constraint Demotion and Null-Subjects in Spanish L2 AcquisitionLarry L. LaFond, Rachel Hayes and Rakesh M. Bhatt | p. 121
- Temporal Location of Events and the Distribution of the Romance Counterparts of since-AdverbialsTelmo Móia | p. 137
- PRO, Movement and Binding in PortugueseAcrisio Pires | p. 153
- On Impersonal Reflexives in Romance and Slavic and Semantic VariationMaría Luisa Rivero | p. 169
- The Role of Syntactic Modifications on L2 Oral ComprehensionNuria Sagarra | p. 197
- Syntactic Constraints on Access to Lexical Structure: The case of ficarCristina Schmitt | p. 211
- A comparative Semantics for the Subjunctive Mood in SpanishElisabeth Villalta | p. 227
- Index of Terms & Concepts | pp. 243–246
“[...] the entire volume is invaluable for researchers interested in formal approaches to SLA.”
Silvina Montrul, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Issue 27:1 (2005)
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