Colina Sonia, Olarrea Antxon, Carvalho Ana Maria (Eds.). Romance Linguistics 2009

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010. — 449 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 315).Selected papers from the 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Tucson, Arizona, March 2009This volume contains a selection of twenty-four peer-reviewed papers from the 39th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Arizona in 2009. Contributions cover a wide variety of topics in the areas of phonology, phonetics, syntax, morphology, and diachronic Romance linguistics, with an emphasis on language variation and change. Among the languages and varieties of Romance analyzed are Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Old French, Old Occitan, and Hispano-Romance.The research in this volume points to a cohesiveness in Romance linguistics that lies in the integration of up-to-date linguistic research with a comparative tradition and the in-depth study of a language family. The work presented will be of interest to scholars of Romance linguistics and of linguistics alike.Phonetics/Phonology
Correcting the record on Dominican [s]-hypercorrection - Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
V-to-V assimilation in trisyllabic words in French: Evidence for gradience and locality - Christopher Carignan and Zsuzsanna Fagyal
The production and provenance of palatal nasals in Portuguese and Spanish - Ryan Shosted and José Ignacio Hualde
Lenition and phonemic contrast in Majorcan Catalan - José Ignacio Hualde, Marianna Nadeu and Miquel Simonet
Alveolar laterals in Majorcan Spanish: Effects of contact with Catalan? - Miquel Simonet
Units of speech production in Italian - Irene Vogel and Linda Wheeldon
Pitch polarity in Palenquero: A possible locus of H tone - John M. Lipski
Word-minimality and sound change in Hispano-Romance - Fernando Martínez-Gil
Multiple opacity in Eastern Regional French - Jean-Pierre Y. MontreuilSyntax
Syntactic variation in Colombian Spanish: The case of the Focalizing Ser (FS) structure - Dunia Catalina Méndez Vallejo
Anaphoricity, logophoricity and intensification: The puzzling case of son propre in French - Isabelle Charnavel
More on the clitic combination puzzle: Evidence from Spanish, Catalan and Romanian - Anahí Alba de la Fuente
The Spanish dative alternation revisited - John Beavers and Chiyo Nishida
Romanian genderless pronouns and parasitic gaps - Ion Giurgea
To agree or not to agree: Beyond quintessentially syntactic agreement in Spanish - Julio Villa-García
Variation in subject expression in Western Romance - Ana de Prada Pérez
A phase-based analysis of Old French genitive constructions - Deborah Arteaga and Julia Herschensohn
V2 loss in Old French and Old Occitan: The role of fronted clauses - Barbara Vance, Bryan Donaldson and Devan SteinerMorphology, and Interfaces
The loss and survival of inflectional morphology: Contextual vs. inherent inflection in creoles - Ana R. Luís
Allomorphy in pre-clitic imperatives in Formenteran Catalan: An output-based analysis - Eulàlia Bonet and Francesc Torres-Tamarit
Preverbal vowels in wh-questions and declarative sentences in Northern Italian Piacentine dialects - Anna Cardinaletti and Lori Repetti
Pitch accent, focus, and the interpretation of non-wh exclamatives in French - Heather Burnett
Detours along the perfect path - Patrícia Amaral and Chad Howe
Grammaticalization of commencer/cominciare “to begin” in French and Italian - Jason Brazeal