Romance Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition, Selected Papers from the 32nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Toronto, April 2002

397 Pages·2003·16.5 MB·English

by  Ana Teresa Perez-Leroux

ROMANCE LINGUISTICS
AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND
HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE
General Editor
E.F. KONRAD KOERNER
(Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie
und Universalienforschung, Berlin)
Series IV – CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY
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Raimo Anttila (Los Angeles); Lyle Campbell (Christchurch, N.Z.)
Sheila Embleton (Toronto); John E. Joseph (Edinburgh)
Manfred Krifka (Berlin); Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin)
E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.); Hans-Jürgen Sasse (Köln)
Volume 244
Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux and Yves Roberge (eds.)
Romance Linguistics: Theory and acquisition
Selected papers from the 32nd Linguistic Symposium on
Romance Languages (LSRL), Toronto, April 2002
ROMANCE LINGUISTICS
THEORY AND ACQUISITION
SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE 32ND
LINGUISTIC SYMPOSIUM ON ROMANCE
LANGUAGES (LSRL), TORONTO, APRIL 2002
Edited by
ANA TERESA PÉREZ-LEROUX
YVES ROBERGE
University of Toronto
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Romance Linguistics. Theory and acquisition : Selected papers from the 32nd Linguistic Symposium
on Romance Languages (LSRL), Toronto, April 2002/ Edited by Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux, Yves
Roberge
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issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763 ; v. 244)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Romance languages--Congresses. I. Pérez Leroux, Ana T. (Ana Teresa), 1962-. II. Roberge, Yves.
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PREFACE
The present volume is composed of 21 essays selected from submissions
based on presentations given at the Thirty-Second Linguistic Symposium on
the Romance Languages (LSRL XXXII), held at the University of Toronto
April 19-21, 2002.
We would like to thank the following individuals for their collaboration in
the selection process for this volume:
A. Alexiadou, M. Ambar, J. Archibald, J. Auger, A. Bel, S. Bélanger, P.
Bhatt, C. Boeckx, E. Bonet, A. M. Brousseau, J. Bruhn de Garavito, J.
Camacho, R. Canac-Marquis, A. Cardinaletti, L. Colantoni, A.
Cornilescu, E. Cowper, S. Cummins, L. Dekydspotter, V. Deprez, M.
Español-Echevarría, J. Franco, E. Gavruseva, R. Gess, G. Goodall, J.
Grinstead, D. Heap, J. L Hualde, N. Hyams, S. Iatridou, H. Jacobs, E.
Kaisse, M. Kato, P. Kempchinsky, G. Legendre, J. Liceras, L. López,
J.-M. Marindin, D. Massam, V. Montapayane, S. Montrul, N. Muller, E.
Nikiema, R. Nuñez-Cedeño, L. A. Ovalle, H. Paul, A. Pires, M.
Pirvulescu, C. Poletto, A. Rochette, L. Sánchez, C. Schmitt, J. Steele, A.
Vainikka, V. Valían, J. Weissenborn, L. White.
The organization of LSRL XXXII and the preparation of the present
volume were made possible through the generous support of the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and from the following
units and organizations at the University of Toronto: Department of French,
Department of Linguistics, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Emilio
Goggio Chair in Italian Studies, Office of the Provost, Office of the Dean of
Arts and Sciences, University of Toronto Work-Study program, Woodsworth
College, and Victoria University.
We have benefited from the generous editorial and technical advice
provided by J.-Marc Authier, William Forrest, Rafael Nuñez-Cedeño, Diane
Massam, Keren Rice, Jeffrey Steele, Anke de Looper and Konrad Koerner. We
count ourselves lucky to have had an excellent editorial team: Mihaela
Pirvulescu, Adriana Scali, and Suzanne Bélanger. This project would have
been more difficult and less pleasant without their cheerful and conscientious
assistance.
VI PREFACE
The volume is organized in two parts. Part One deals with linguistic theory
applied to the Romance languages. It includes chapters in the theory and
description of Romance phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. The
various essays in this section concentrate on three themes: a) specific
properties of Romance at the syntax/semantics interface, with specific con­
tributions about Romanian (Alboiu), French (contributions by Authier & Reed,
Labelle, Lahousse and Vinet), and Spanish (Gutiérrez-Rexach & Howe), b)
morphosyntactic issues involving agreement, licensing and case, with specific
contributions on Portuguese (contributions by Lima-Salles and Castro & Costa)
as well as contrastive work establishing comparisons within Romance
languages and across other language families (contributions by Bejar & Rezac,
and by Cuervo), and last, essays on Romance morphonology, from analyses on
contemporary central Romansch (Montreuil) and Argentinian Spanish (Baker
& Wiltshire) to the study of diachronic issues, including Southern French
dialects clitic distribution (Hirschbühler & Lab elle), and the evolution of Latin
vowels (Calabrese).
Part Two contains contributions on the first, second and bilingual
acquisition of French, Italian, Spanish, and Romanian. The bulk of this section
deals with the acquisition of functional structure (agreement and finiteness),
with special attention to its role in the developmental distribution of null
subjects (contributions by Prévost, Plunkett, and Berger-Morales), on
determiner and auxiliary drop (Avram & Coene) and on compounding and
noun-drop (Liceras). Finally, two contributions deal with phonological and
semantic development respectively: L2 acquisition of stress (Bullock & Lord),
and the bilingual acquisition of quantification at a distance (Hulk, Peets &
Cornips).
Ana T. Pérez-Leroux & Yves Roberge
University of Toronto
April 29, 2003
The unmeasured line,
Missing fonts and displaced trees
Infinite regress
CONTENTS
Preface v
Part One. THEORY
Operator Asymmetries in Romanian: Syntax and/or Phonology 3
Gabriela Alboiu
Quantifier Scope and the Structure of faire-par 19
J.-Marc Authier & Lisa A. Reed
An  Treatment of Palatal Fortition in Argentinian Spanish 33
Gary K. Baker & Caroline R. Wiltshire
Person Licensing and the Derivation of PCC Effects 49
Susana Béjar & Milan Rezac
On the Evolution of the Short HighVowels of Latin into Romance 63
Andrea Calabrese
Weak Forms as Xo: Prenominal Possessives and Preverbal 95
Adverbs in European Portuguese
Ana Castro & João Costa
A Control-vs-Raising Theory of Dative Experiencers 111
María Cristina Cuervo
Selective and Unselective Manner Operators 131
Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach & Chad Howe
Residual Tobler-Mussafia in French Dialects 149
Paul Hirschbühler & Marie Labelle
Events, States and the French Imparfait 165
Marie Labelle
NP-Subject Inversion in French and (Preposed) Adverbs 181
Karen Lahousse
viii CONTENTS
Infinitive Clauses as Substitutes for Subjunctive Clauses 197
in Brazilian Portuguese
Heloisa Maria Moreira Lima-Salles
Weight and Opacity in Surmiran 209
Jean-Pierre Montreuil
French Clitics and Object Splits: A Case Study in Microvariation 223
Marie-Thérèse Vinet
Part Two. ACQUISITION
Why is it Difficult to Reach Agreement? 247
Larisa Avram & Martine Coene
Supporting the Separate Systems Hypothesis: A Case Study 263
in Bilingual Acquisition of Italian and German
Julia Berger-Morales & Manola Salustri
Analogy as a Learning tool in Second Language Acquisition: 281
The Case of Spanish Stress
Barbara Bullock & Gillian Lord
Acquiring the Syntax of beaucoup at a distance as a Bilingual 299
Child: An Experimental Study
Aafke Hulk, J anneke Peet & Leonie Cornips
Spanish L1/L2 Crossroads: Can We Get 'There' from 'Here'? 317
Juana M. Liceras
Null Subjects and the Setting of Subject Agreement Parameters 351
in Child French
Bernadette Plunkett
On the Nature of Root Infinitives in Adult L2 French 367
Philippe Prévost
Subject Index 385
PART ONE
THEORY