Features and Interfaces in Romance : Essays in Honor of Heles Contreras / edited by Julia Herschensohn, Enrique Mallén, Karen Zagona.

This volume brings together new research on theoretical Romance Linguistics; its intended audience is scholars in the field of formal grammar, especially those specializing in Romance languages. It represents the latest work on the structure of Romance languages, with relevant comparisons to other l...

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Other Authors: Contreras, Heles, Herschensohn, Julia Rogers, 1945-, Mallén, Enrique, Zagona, Karen T., 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, ©2001.
Series:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 222.
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Table of Contents:
  • FEATURES AND INTERFACES IN ROMANCE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; SEEMINGLY ERGATIVE AND ERGATIVELY SEEMING; ON THE WEIGHT OF LIGHT PREDICATES*; ON THE INTERPRETATION OF FOCUS FEATURES; "DEQUEÍSMO" IN SPANISH AND THE STRUCTURE AND FEATURES OF CP; EVALUATIVE SUFFIXATION IN SPANISH AND THE SYNTAX OF DERIVATIONAL PROCESSES*; THE LOWER OPERATOR POSITION WITH PARASITIC GAPS*; NP MOVEMENT AND ADJECTIVE POSITION IN THE DP PHASES; REFLECTIONS ON A PHONOLOGICAL GRAMMAR OF SPANISH; THE LONG FALL AN INTONATIONAL MELODY OF ARGENTINIAN SPANISH*
  • On the position of preposed pps in english and spanishthe morphologization and grammaticalization of french liaison; determining the acquisition of determiners on the innateness of functional categories*; sonority as a primitive phonological feature evidence from spanish complex onset phonotactics; weak subject pronouns in caribbean spanish and xp pied-piping; the realization of number in italian and spanish; discourse topic constraints on left dislocated subjects and clld structures; the puzzle of restrictive relative clauses with conjoined dp antecedents*
  • Definite determiners in french and spanish features and extraction*subject index; name index.