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Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics

The 20 papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 34th LSRL, held in Salt Lake City, in 2004. The papers deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in Romance Linguistics and include several from the conference parasession, which focused on experimental approaches to problems in Romance Linguistics. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in current issues in theoretical Romance Linguistics.

Language Acquisition and Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 521

Language Acquisition and Development

This volume gathers fifty papers from the conference Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, GALA 2007, celebrated in Barcelona between the 6th and 8th of September, 2007. It covers the areas of syntax and phonology of child language from the theoretical perspective of generative grammar – the theoretical outlook which first placed language acquisition at the centre of linguistic inquiry.

Language Acquisition in Romance Languages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Language Acquisition in Romance Languages

The research presented in this volume covers first language acquisition, second language acquisition, language heritage and language impairment. Papers in this collection use a variety of experimental methods, such as eye-tracking, elicitation tasks, production tasks administered off-line and untimed, transcriptions of spontaneous speech, production elicitation, Truth Value Judgement tasks, standardized tests and multiple choice tasks. The studies included in this book try to cover most of the methods used in first and second language acquisition in typical and atypical populations. This book will be useful for linguists, speech therapists, and psycholinguists working on first, second and impaired language acquisition.

Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case

Although the interest in the concept of partitivity has continuously increased in the last decades and has given rise to considerable advances in research, the fine-grained morpho-syntactic and semantic variation displayed by partitive elements across European languages is far from being well-described, let alone well-understood. There are two main obstacles to this: on the one hand, theoretical linguistics and typological linguistics are fragmented in different methodological approaches that hinder the full sharing of cross-theoretic advances; on the other hand, partitive elements have been analyzed in restricted linguistic environments, which would benefit from a broader perspective. The a...

Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 455

Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics

An innovative survey that covers the linguistic questions of modality and mood, offering a new model for the phenomenon.

Compounds and Compounding
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

Compounds and Compounding

This controversial new book addresses the linguistic problems around compounds: words which sit on the borderline of syntax and morphology.

New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics

This is the first of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote address delivered by Denis Bouchard on exaptation and linguistic explanation, as well as seventeen contributions by emerging and internationally recognized scholars of Spanish, French, Italian, as well as Rumanian. While the emphasis bears on formal analyses, the coverage is remarkably broad, as topics range from morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and language acquisition. Each article seeks to represent a new perspective on these topics and a variety of frameworks and concepts are exploited: distributive morphology, entailment theory, grammaticalization, information structure, left-periphery, polarity lattice, spatial individuation, thematic hierarchy, etc. This volume will challenge anyone interested in current issues in theoretical Romance Linguistics.

Selected Proceedings of the Romance Turn IV Workshop on the Acquisition of Romance Languages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 341

Selected Proceedings of the Romance Turn IV Workshop on the Acquisition of Romance Languages

This edited collection contains 13 selected papers presented at the Romance Turn IV conference, which was held at Université François Rabelais, Tours, France, in 2010. The volume reflects the diversity of interests of the contributors, not only in the learning contexts investigated (first language acquisition, typical or impaired, and bilingualism), but also in the linguistic properties being explored, in both syntax and phonology, and the languages under examination (work not only on Romance languages such as French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish, but also comparative studies involving Basque, Modern Greek, and Cypriot Greek). Such a variety all...

Living on the Edge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 757

Living on the Edge

This collection of papers by an international group of authors honors Jonathan Kaye's contributions to phonology by expanding some of Kaye's ideas to a variety of theoretical topics and languages. The set of ideas discussed or used in this collection includes: empty categories, licensing relationships and constraints, a restrictive two-levelled approach to phonology (without rule ordering or constraint ranking), a restrictive theory of syllabic representation (without the codas constituent and with exclusively binary branching), theories of the phonology-phonetics interface in which phonology is motivated independently of phonetics, and the metatheoretical flaws in a number of widely accepted but rarely questioned views on phonology.

Bilingual Language Acquisition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 435

Bilingual Language Acquisition

An in-depth and meticulous study of the English-Spanish bilingual development of two siblings from their first word to age six.