Bok-Bennema Reineke, Hollebrandse Bart, Kampers-Manhe Brigitte, Sleeman Petra (Eds.). Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004. — 286 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 256).Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002The Going Romance conferences are a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. Selected papers are published in the Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory volumes. This is the fourth such volume, containing a selection of the papers that have been presented at the 2002 conference, which was held at the State University of Groningen. The three-day program included a workshop on Acquisition. The articles in this volume focalize on specifics of one or more Romance languages or varieties: clausal structure, verb-movement, topic, focus and reinforcement constructions, nominal ellipsis, (absence of) pronouns in child language, and other current issues in Romance linguistics.Tense, Quantification and Clause Structure in EP and BP. Evidence from a Comparative Study on Sempre - Manuela Ambar, Manuela Gonzaga and Esmeralda Vailati Negrão
Early ‘Pragmatic’ Competence and its Implications regarding the Null Subject Phenomenon - Cécile De Cat
On the Impact of French Subject Clitics on the Information Structure of the Sentence - Cécile De Cat
A Restricted View of Head Movement - Heles Contreras
The Effects of Phonological Cues on the Syntax of Focus Constructions in Spanish - Laura Domínguez
Optional Infinitives or Silent Auxes? New Evidence from Romance - Cristina Dye
Dislocation, Clitic Resumption and Minmality. A Comparative Analysis of Left and Right Topic Constructions in Italian - Mara Frascarelli
Focus on Negative Concord - Daniela Isac
Romance and ‘Something Else’ - Daniela Isac and Charles Reiss
Learnability Order in the French Pronominal System - Jacqueline van Kampen
Nominal Ellipsis and Morphological Structure in Spanish - Laura Kornfeld and Andrés Saab
The Development of Inalienable Possession in English and Spanish - Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux, Cristina Schmitt and Alan Munn
Segmental and Featural Strategies to Avoid Adjacent Sibilant Segments in Balearic Catalan. An Optimality Account - Claudia Pons-Moll
-Tu in Quebec French as a (Super)positive Marker - Marie-Thérèse Vinet
Feature Checking and Object Clitic Omission in Child Catalan and Spanish - Kenneth Wexler, Anna Gavarró and Vincent Torrens