Treviño Esthela, Lema José (Eds.). Semantic Issues in Romance Syntax

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999. — 318 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 173).All of the articles in this volume focus on the interaction of form and meaning. Most of them are developed under the principal thesis of the Minimalist Program. These works show that the theoretical linguistic trend is to discover semantic aspects which are assumed to have visible syntactic repercussions through morphosyntactic and morphosemantic features.Infinitives vs. participles - Manuela Ambar
Without expletive replacement? - Carlo Cecchetto
Verbal structures and variation - Anna Maria Di Sciullo
French degree quantifiers and the syntax of mass and count - Jenny Doetjes
Neuter relatives and the degree operator - Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach
On the interpretation of Spanish n-words - Elena Herburger
What does zero syntax add to an analysis of French psych verbs? - Julia Herschensohn
The pronoun ∼ determiner debate: Evidence from Sardinian and repercussions for French - Michael Allan Jones
A minimalist approach to compositionality of aspects - Sonia Maruenda and Margaret Salome
Configurational Attitudes - Pierre Pica and Johan Rooryck
Information focus: Between core and periphery - Manuela Pinto
Relativized impersonality: Deontic sentences in Catalan - Gemma Rigau
Quaint agreement and the theory of spell-out - Yves Roberge
Aktionsart and transitive phrases - Montserrat Sanz
Determiner transparency: Evidence from Brazilian Portuguese - Cristina Schmitt
The post-verbal subject position of Italian unaccusative verbs of inherently directed motion - Christina Tortora