Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 28th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVIII), University Park, 16–19 April 1998

346 Pages·1999·11.16 MB·English

by  J-.Marc Authier

FORMAL PERSPECTIVES
ON ROMANCE LINGUISTICS
AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND
HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE
General Editor
E. F. KONRAD KOERNER
(University of Ottawa)
Series IV - CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY
Advisory Editorial Board
Raimo Anttila (Los Angeles); Lyle Campbell (Christchurch, N.Z.)
John E. Joseph (Edinburgh); Manfred Krifka (Austin, Tex.)
Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin); Ernst Pulgram (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.); Hans-Jürgen Sasse (Köln)
Volume 185
J.-Marc Authier, Barbara E. Bullock and Lisa A. Reed (eds.)
Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics
Selected papers from the 28th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
(LSRL XXVIII), University Park, 1-19 April 1998
FORMAL PERSPECTIVES
ON ROMANCE LINGUISTICS
SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE 28TH LINGUISTIC
SYMPOSIUM ON ROMANCE LANGUAGES (LSRLX XVIII)
University Park, 16-19 April 1998
Edited by
J.-MARC AUTHIER
BARBARA E. BULLOCK
LISAA. REED
The Pennsylvania State University
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Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (28th : 1998 : University Park)
Formal perspectives on Romance linguistics : selected papers from the 28th Linguistic Symposium
on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVIII) : University Park, 16-19 April 1998 / edited by J.-Marc Authier.
Barbara E. Bullock, Lisa A. Reed.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The papers selected for inclusion in this volume originated as presentations
at the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on
Romance Languages (LSRL XXVIII) which took place 16 — 19 April, 1998
at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.
The editors gratefully acknowledge the scholars listed below for their
generous assistance, first, in selecting the papers to be presented at the
conference, and then later, for reviewing some of those for inclusion in this
volume.
Joseph Aoun, Julie Auger, Andrea Calabrese, Héctor Campos,
Gennaro Chierchia, Heles Contreras, Violeta Demonte, Donka
Farkas, Randall Gess, Grant Goodall, Jorge Guitart, Barbara
Hancin-Bhatt, James Harris, Julia Herschensohn, José Hualde,
Haike Jacobs, Juana Liceras, John Lipski, Diane Massam, Jean-
Pierre Montreuil, Alfonso Morales-Front, Donna Jo Napoli, Rafael
Núñez-Cedeño, Ana Pérez-Leroux, Paul M. Postai, Lori Repetti,
Yves Roberge, Mario Saltarelli, Lisa Selkirk, Dominique Sportiche,
Donca Steriade, Margarita Suñer, Esther Torrego, Bernard Tranel,
Co Vet, Marie-Thérèse Vinet, Amy Weinberg, Lydia White, Karen
Zagona, Raffaella Zanuttini and María-Luisa Zubizarreta.
Additional thanks are due to Carlos Martin-Vide for organizing the informative
Workshop on Mathematical Linguistics, which took place concurrently with
LSRL XXVIII; to Walter J. Savitch for serving on the WML Program
Committee; and to Philip Baldi for giving a highly enjoyable Outreach Lecture
during the LSRL XXVIII conference.
Thanks as well to Geoffrey Conrad, Lori Fox Benson and Chuck Wilson
for their assistance in planning LSRL XXVIII, as well as to Travis Bradley,
Konrad Koerner, Anke de Looper, and Lynn Palermo for their invaluable
assistance in editing this volume.
VI ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Finally, neither the LSRL XXVIII conference nor this volume would have
been possible without the generous financial support of the following Penn
State units:
Continuing and Distance Education
The Research and Graduate Studies Office of the College of
the Liberal Arts
The Department of French
The Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
The Linguistics Program
The Office of International Partnerships and Academic Linkages
The Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
The Department of Philosophy
The Department of Psychology
J.-Marc Authier, Barbara E. Bullock & Lisa A. Reed
Linguistics Program & Department of French
The Pennsylvania State University
Room 311, Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802-6203
U.S.A.
June 10, 1999
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments v
List of Contributors ix
Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics 1
J. -Marc Authier, Barbara E. Bullock & Lisa A. Reed
Object Bare Plurals in Spanish and the Semantics of Personal a 21
Tonia Bleam
Case Feature Checking and its Consequences: Evidence from 39
¿rø-cliticization in French
Marie Claude Boivin
Assibilation in Ecuadorian Spanish: A phonology-phonetics account 57
Travis G Bradley
How Similar are Conjuncts? Against asymmetric conjunction 73
José Camacho
Deriving Heavy NP-Shift in French 89
J. Maarten de Wind
The Presuppositionality Condition and Spanish Clitic-Doubled Objects 107
Jon A. Franco & Errapel Mejias-Bikandi
Positional Faithfulness versus Cue Preservation: The case of 121
nasal sequence resolution in Gallo-Romance
Randall Gess
Passives and Arbitrary Plural Subjects in Spanish 135
Grant Goodall
Spanish Indefinites and Type-Driven Interpretation 151
Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach
vm CONTENTS
Minimalist Access to UG in L2 French 167
Julia Herschensohn
Conflictual Agreement in Romance Nominals 179
Aafke Hulk & Christine Tellier
Resyllabification Precedes all Segmental Rules: Evidence from 197
Argentinian Spanish
Ellen M. Kaisse
Objects and the Structure of Imperatives 211
Mihaela Pirvulescu & Yves Rober'ge
Null Objects and DO Features in Contact Spanish 227
Liliana Sanchez
Lexical Conservatism in French Adjectival Liaison 243
Donca Steriade
Optional Schwa Deletion: On syllable economy in French 271
Bernard Tranel
Geminates and Clusters in Italian and Piedmontese: A case for 289
OT ranking
Caroline Wiltshire & Elisa Maranzana
Structural Case and Tense Construal 305
Karen Zagona
Index of Terms & Concepts 329
CONTRIBUTORS
Marc Authier José Camacho
Penn State University Caracas 2628
Linguistics Program Lima 11
311 Burrowes Bldg. Peru
University Park, PA 16802 [email protected]
United States
[email protected] J. Maarten de Wind
University of Amsterdam &
Tonia Bleam Holland Institute of Generative
IRCS Linguistics
University of Pennsylvania Faculty of Arts
3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A Department of French
Philadelphia, PA 19104 Spuistraat 134
United States 1012 VB Amsterdam
[email protected] The Netherlands
[email protected]
Marie Claude Boivin
Dept. of Linguistics & Philosophy Jon Franco
E39-245 MIT Universidad De Deusto
Cambridge, MA 02139 Apartado 1
United States E-48080 Bilbao
[email protected] Spain
[email protected]
Travis Bradley
Penn State University Randall Gess
Dept. of Spanish, Italian & University of Utah
Portuguese Linguistics Program
352 N. Burrowes Bldg. 255 S. Central Campus Dr.
University Park, PA 16802 Room 2328
United States Salt Lake City, UT 84112
[email protected] United States
Randall.Gess® rn.cc.utah.edu
Barbara Bullock
Penn State University Grant Goodall
Dept. of French & Ling. Program University of Texas at El Paso
325 S. Burrowes Bldg. Dept. of Languages & Linguistics
University Park, PA 16802 El Paso, TX 79968
United States United States
[email protected] [email protected]