Herschensohn Julia (Ed.). Romance Linguistics 2010

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. — 351 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 318).Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Seattle, Washington, March 2010This volume contains a selection of nineteen peer-reviewed papers from the 40th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Washington in March 2010. In addition to overviews of Romance linguistics by the editor and by Jurgen Klausenburger in the keynote article, contributions cover a variety of linguistic theoretical topics and a range of Romance languages, including Old and Modern French, Italian, Romanian as well as several dialects of Spanish and Portuguese. A number of papers deal with the morphophonology of Peninsular Spanish languages, agreement anomalies, generic interpretation, and the syntax/semantics of determiners, particularly of Romanian. Both the topics and the languages discussed in this volume are tied together by a number of leitmotifs, and several articles present phenomena not previously considered. The volume makes significant contributions both to the documentation of Romance languages and to linguistic theory, and will be of interest to Romance and general linguistics scholars.Morphophonology
On the origins of /ɨ/ in Romanian - Margaret E.L. Renwick
An acoustic investigation of nasal place neutralization in Spanish: Default place assignment and phonetic underspecification - Michael Ramsammy
An acoustic study of rhotics in onset clusters in La Rioja - Christine Weissglass
Mid front vowel lowering before rhotics in Ibero-Romance - Travis G. Bradley
Plural formation in Galician - Sonia ColinaSyntax
On bare subject relative clauses in Old French - Deborah Arteaga
Directed motion in Medieval French - Michelle Troberg
An ergative analysis of French valency alternations - Edit Doron and Marie Labelle
Peninsular Spanish pre-nominal possessives in ellipsis contexts: A Phase-based account - Luis Sáez
On the nature of nominal features: Agreement mismatches in Spanish conjoined structures - Violeta Demonte, Héctor Fernández-Alcalde and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez
On the nature of bare nouns in Afro-Bolivian Spanish - Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Sandro Sessarego
Negative imperatives in Portuguese and other Romance languages - Rerisson CavalcanteSemantic Interfaces
Another look at Italian generic sentences - Alda Mari
The agreement of collective DPS in Romanian - Blanca Croitor and Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin
A multidominance account for conjoined questions in Romanian - Dafina Ratiu
The Romanian verbal cluster and the theory of head movement - Ion Giurgea
New challenges in the area of semantic dependencies: The Romanian epistemic constraint - Anamaria Fălăus
Polarity particles in English and Romanian - Donka F. Farkas