Perez-Leroux Ana Teresa, Roberge Yves (Eds.). Romance Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003. — 397 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 244).Selected papers from the 32nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Toronto, April 2002This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 32nd Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, dealing with linguistic theory as applied to the Romance languages, and on empirical studies on the acquisition of Romance, with studies on Romanian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romansch and Latin.
The theoretical section contains contributions concentrating on specific properties of Romance at the syntax/semantics interface, on morphosyntactic issues, on subject licensing and case, and on phonology. The acquisition section includes contributions on first, bilingual and second language acquisition of functional structure, word structure, quantification and stress.Theory
Operator Asymmetries in Romanian: Syntax and/or Phonology - Gabriela Alboiu
Quantifier Scope and the Structure of faire-par - Jean-Marc Authier and Lisa A. Reed
An OT Treatment of Palatal Fortition in Argentinian Spanish - Gary K. Baker and Caroline R. Wiltshire
Person Licensing and the Derivation of PCC Effects - Susana Béjar and Milan Rezac
On the Evolution of the Short High Vowels of Latin into Romance - Andrea Calabrese
Weak Forms as Xo: Prenominal Possessives and Preverbal Adverbs in European Portuguese - Ana Castro and João Costa
A Control-vs-Raising Theory of Dative Experiencers - Maria Cristina Cuervo
Selective and Unselective Manner Operators - Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Chad Howe
Residual Tobler-Mussafia in French Dialects - Paul Hirschbühler and Marie Labelle
Events, States and the French Imparfait - Marie Labelle
NP-Subject Inversion in French and (Preposed) Adverbs - Karen Lahousse
Infinitive Clauses as Substitutes for Subjunctive Clauses in Brazilian Portuguese - Heloisa Maria M. Lima-Salles
Weight and Opacity in Surmiran - Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil
French Clitics and Object Splits: A Case Study in Microvariation - Marie-Thérèse VinetAcquisition
Why is it Difficult to Reach Agreement? - Larisa Avram and Martine Coene
Supporting the Separate Systems Hypothesis: A Case Study in Bilingual Acquisition of Italian and German - Julia Morales and Manola Salustri
Analogy as a Learning tool in Second Language Acquisition: The Case of Spanish Stress - Barbara E. Bullock and Gillian Lord
Acquiring the Syntax of beaucoup at a distance as a Bilingual Child: An Experimental Study - Aafke Hulk, Janneke Peet and Leonie Cornips
Spanish L1/L2 Crossroads: Can We Get ‘There’ from ‘Here’? - Juana M. Liceras
Null Subjects and the Setting of Subject Agreement Parameters in Child French - Bernadette Plunkett
On the Nature of Root Infinitives in Adult L2 French - Philippe Prévost