Edited by Sergio Baauw, Frank Drijkoningen, Luisa Meroni and Manuela Pinto
In 2011, the annual conference series Going Romance celebrated its 25th edition in Utrecht, the founder city of the enterprise. Since its inception in the eighties of the last century, the local initiative has developed into the major European discussion forum for research focussing on the… read more
Edited by Sergio Baauw, Frank Drijkoningen and Manuela Pinto
The conference series Going Romance is the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages, where ideas about language and linguistics and about Romance languages are put in an interactive perspective, giving space to both universality and Romance-internal… read more
L2 learners of Spanish have difficulties choosing the right copula in ser/estar + adjective constructions. Beyond the effect of processing load of information pertaining to different cognitive modules (Sorace’s (2011) Interface Hypothesis), this study aims at pinpointing the specific properties… read more
Spanish captures the difference between eventive and stative passives via an
obligatory choice between two copula; verbal passives take the copula ser and
adjectival passives take the copula estar. In this study, we compare and contrast
US and Canadian heritage speakers of Spanish on their… read more
Null-subject languages are said to track reference and discourse-pragmatic information exploiting the array of specialized forms provided by their grammar. This argument is normally used as the baseline against which language acquisition and contact varieties (L1, 2L1, L2, L1-attrition) are… read more
Longitudinal data from two Dutch-Italian bilinguals show that third person subject pronouns are not acquired before the age of 3;1 and that the usage of these pronouns does not always converge with the monolingual target. This paper accounts for this acquisitional delay by integrating Müller and… read more
