Contributions of Romance Languages to Current Linguistic Theory

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Julia Herschensohn

   Pages 1-10

3. Romance Syntax

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Classifier Phrase as Host for Stage-Level Spanish Adnominal Participial Adjectives

      • Karen Zagona, Heles Contreras

      Pages 13-37

   3. The Syntax of Mirative Focus Fronting: Evidence from French

      • J.-Marc Authier, Liliane Haegeman

      Pages 39-63

   4. Further Implications of French Devoir and Falloir for Theories of Control and Modality

      • Lisa A. Reed

      Pages 65-89

4. Language Variation in Romance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Conceptual and Empirical Arguments for a Language Feature: Evidence from Language Mixing

      • Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

      Pages 93-113

   3. On the Reduction of /ʒ/ in a Minority North American Variety of French

      • Randall Gess

      Pages 115-136

   4. Why Lenition Interactions Are Typically Counter-Feeding

      • Haike Jacobs

      Pages 137-154

   5. The French Jespersen’s Cycle and Negative Concord

      • Marie Labelle

      Pages 155-172

5. Diachronic Romance Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. The Variable Position of Initial Subordinate Clauses in Old French: Arguments Against a Semantic Account

      • Bryan Donaldson

      Pages 175-201

   3. Obviation and Old French Subjunctive Clauses

      • Deborah L. Arteaga

      Pages 203-229

   4. On the Varying Fortunes of darla and darlo in Italian

      • Cinzia Russi

      Pages 231-251

   5. Conclusion

      • Julia Herschensohn

      Pages 253-254

This volume presents novel analyses of morphosyntax and phonology by well-known scholars in their respective fields. The book offers chapters on a range of Romance languages and dialects, including Canadian French, Standard French, Modern French, Sardinian, Sicilian, and Spanish. Other chapters focus on diachronic topics on French and Italian. The volume will be of interest to researchers looking for current research in linguistics on the Romance languages. It will also serve as a reference volume or supplemental reading for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in linguistics.

• Romance languages
• Theoretical linguistics
• Obviation and Old French subjunctive clauses
• Syntax and semantics of mirative focus fronting in French
• Language varieties
• Old French initial subordinate clauses
• French Jespersen cycle
• morphosyntax
• phonology

“This book provides state of the art studies of various topics of Romance Linguistics such as syntax, phonology, historical linguistic, discourse analysis. The papers in syntax examine modals, adjectivals, focus, dislocation, negation; the papers in phonology focus on lenition and optimality theory; in sociolinguistics the studies investigate mixing and the interaction of language and culture; many chapters study the historical evolution of Romance languages. The chapters present data in many Romance Languages (French, Old French, Spanish, Italian, Corsican, Sicilian and Sardinian)”. (Francisco Ordóñez, Stony Brook University, USA)

 

• Department of World Languages and Cultures, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, USA

  Deborah L. Arteaga

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