Christina Tortora
List of John Benjamins publications in which Christina Tortora is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1574-552X
Romance Parsed Corpora
Edited by Christina Tortora, Beatrice Santorini and Frances Blanchette
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 18:1 (2018) v, 204 pp.
Romance Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New York, 17-19 April, 2013
Edited by Christina Tortora, Marcel den Dikken, Ignacio L. Montoya and Teresa O'Neill
This volume contains a selection of peer-reviewed articles first presented at the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held in New York in 2013. The articles deal with various synchronic and diachronic aspects of Romance languages and dialects world-wide. They will be of interest… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 9] 2016. xix, 418 pp.
The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories
Edited by Marcel den Dikken and Christina Tortora
This volume brings together papers which address a range of issues regarding the syntax of function words and functional categories in the Germanic languages. The works offered in this volume derive specifically from comparative studies of Germanic; at the same time they all bear directly on… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 78] 2005. vii, 292 pp.
Current Issues in Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ann Arbor, 8–11 April 1999
Edited by Teresa Satterfield, Christina Tortora and Diana Cresti
This book presents an enlightening collection of papers contributing to theoretical discussions across many topics within the study of Romance Languages and Linguistics. The work originates from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held in 1999 at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 220] 2002. viii, 412 pp.
2018 Romance Parsed Corpora: Editors’ introduction Romance Parsed Corpora, Tortora, Christina, Beatrice Santorini and Frances Blanchette (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Introduction
2017 Chapter 15. When a piece of phonology becomes a piece of syntax: The case of subject clitics Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12: Selected papers from the 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Campinas, Brazil, Lopes, Ruth E.V., Juanito Ornelas de Avelar and Sonia M. L. Cyrino (eds.), pp. 235–258 | Chapter
This work argues against the view that phonological factors play a role in the distribution of vocalic auxiliary subject clitics (vocalic auxiliary scls), namely, those scls which occur with auxiliary verbs beginning in a vowel. Evidence is given to support the view that such scls are purely… read more
2016 Introduction Romance Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New York, 17-19 April, 2013, Tortora, Christina, Marcel den Dikken, Ignacio L. Montoya and Teresa O'Neill (eds.), pp. vii–xx | Article
2014 Clausal domains and clitic placement generalizations in Romance Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2012: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Leuven 2012, Lahousse, Karen and Stefania Marzo (eds.), pp. 1–36 | Article
Adopting the view that Romance object clitics adjoin to functional heads within the functional structure of clause, this chapter offers a novel approach to object clitic syntax in Romance, which brings together an array of clitic placement patterns across a variety of languages under one system. In… read more
2014 On the relation between functional architecture and patterns of change in Romance object clitic syntax Variation within and across Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ottawa, 5–7 May 2011, Côté, Marie-Hélène and Eric Mathieu (eds.), pp. 331–348 | Article
Complement clitic pronouns (OCLs) in Romance are not all created equal: diachronic change in OCL syntax can at first affect some clitic forms, but not others. This paper examines two cases of variation and change in OCL syntax from two different Romance varieties. Specifically, I examine the change… read more
2008 Aspect inside PLACE PPs Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P, Asbury, Anna, Jakub Dotlačil, Berit Gehrke and Rick Nouwen (eds.), pp. 273–301 | Article
2005 Introduction: The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories, Dikken, Marcel den and Christina Tortora (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
2005 The preposition’s preposition in Italian: Evidence For Boundedness of Space Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Salt Lake City, March 2004, Gess, Randall and Edward J. Rubin (eds.), pp. 307–327 | Article
1999 The post-verbal subject position of Italian unaccusative verbs of inherently directed motion Semantic Issues in Romance Syntax, Treviño, Esthela and José Lema (eds.), pp. 283–298 | Article
