Wanner Dieter, Kibbee Douglas A. (Eds.). New Analyses in Romance Linguistics

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1991. — 425 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 69).Selected Papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XVIII, Urbana-Champaign, April 7-9, 1988The twenty papers from the eighteenth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages deal with diverse aspects of the Romance languages and Romance linguistics. They reflect the current state of Romance studies in North America and of the particular outlook among the international group of contributors and participants to LSRL 18. The thriving research front accords central importance to formal questions of synchronic analysis. The group of seven historical and typological papers amounts to a strong alternative. Several papers treat the group of Romance languages not only as a well-defined, almost exclusive research province, but move from Romance phenomena outward to other language types, even to genuinely universal dimensions. Other contributions maintain a more circumscribed outlook exploiting the typological closeness of the Romance idioms for improved analyses. Three invited contributions by Georg Bossong, Yves Charles-Morin and Maria-Luisa Rivero on typological, phonological and syntactic questions set the tone for the volume.Phonology and Morphology
The Acquisition of Spanish Syllable Structure - Maria M. Carreira
Syllabification and Resyllabification in French - Christiane Laeufer
Length in Milanese - Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil
Old French Stress Patterns and Closed Syllable Adjustment - Yves-Charles Morin
Contrastive and Allophonic Properties of Brazilian Portuguese Vowels - W. Leo Wetzels
On Deriving Specifiers in Spanish: Morpho-Phono-Syntactic Interactions - Uthaiwan Wong-opasiSyntax and Semantics
Subjunctive and ECP - Philippe E. Barbaud
Differential Object Marking in Romance and Beyond - Georg Bossong
Case Absorption, Theta Structure and Pronominal Verbs - Héctor Campos and Paula Kempchinsky
Latin Prepositions and Romance Syntax - John E. Joseph
In Search of the Spanish Personal Infinitive - John M. Lipski
Some Stops on the Modality Line - Patricia V. Lunn
Clitic Climbing in Infinitival Constructions of Middle French - France Martineau
On Comparing French and Italian: The Switch From illum mihi to mihi illum - Elizabeth Pearce
Exceptional Case Marking Effects in Rumanian Subjunctive Complements - María Luisa Rivero
On the Recoverability of Null Objects - Yves Roberge
VP-Nominative Constructions in Italian - Mario Saltarelli
Thematicity and “Object”-Participle Agreement in Romance - John Charles Smith
The Ambivalent Nature of Spanish Infinitives - James Hye Suk Yoon and Neus Bonet-Farran
Deriving Expletives as Complements: French Ce - Laurie Zaring