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Author Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (31st : 2001 : Chicago, Ill.)

Title A Romance perspective on language knowledge and use / selected papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LRSL), Chicago, 19-22 April, 2001 ; edited by Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Luis López, Richard Cameron
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 384 pages)
Series Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 238
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 238. 0304-0763
Contents A ROMANCE PERSPECTIVE ON LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE AND USE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Introduction and acknowledgment -- Phonology and morphology -- Pronominal clitics in Picard revisited -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Auger's (1994a) analysis of Picard subject clitics -- 3. Vowel epenthesis in Vimeu Picard -- 4. An OT analysis of vowel epenthesis in clitic + verb clusters -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Sources -- Spanish /s/ -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and method -- 3. Does the final to initial continuum hold?
4. Final /s/ reduction: Following phonological environment and frequency/ lexical effects -- 5. Initial /s/ reduction: Preceding phonological environment, frequency/ lexical effects and productivity -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Consonant intrusion in heterosyllabic cosonant-liquid clusters in Old Spanish and Old French -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Intrusive consonants in Old Spanish and Old French: The basic data -- 3. Intrusive consonants in a rule-based approach -- 4. An Optimality theoretical account of intrusive consonants -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References
A constraint interaction theory of Italian raddoppiamento -- 1. Raddoppiamento at phonetic interface -- 2. Consonant length in Italian -- 2.1. Initial consonant lengthening (raddoppiamento) -- 2.2. C-lengthening, C-copying and latent elements -- 2.3. Stress to weight effects -- 2.4. Initial and final C-lengthening: Interaction with Onsets and Codas -- 2.5. Metrical stress retraction, clash and raddoppiamento -- 2.6. Syntactic, prosodic and semantic effects -- 2.7. Duration rhythm, RF and the design of grammar: A closer look -- 3. Quantitative (duration) restrictions and the ranking of constraints
3.1. Interaction between lexical prominence and vowel quantity: Stress-to-Weight > > *VV -- 3.2. Vowel and consonant quantity interaction: *VV > > *CC -- 3.3. Coda lengthening: Stress and syllable structure interaction: Onset > > NoCoda -- 3.4. Lexical faithfulness and c̀ontrast': Ident-io[dur/Cm] > > *VV > > *CC > > Ident-io[dur] -- 4. Rules, constraints and the typology of raddoppiamento revisited -- 4.1. Absence of lexically driven RF in Marsican: Inverse ranking -- 5. Conclusion and consequences -- Notes -- References -- Pragmatics and sociolinguistics -- Ground/Focus -- 1. Introduction
2. Illocutionary definition of Focus -- 2.1. Illocutionary boundary tones and Focus marking -- 2.2. Illocutionary definition of Focus -- 2.3. Descriptive adequacy of the illocutionary definition -- 2.4. To sum up -- 3. The thematic definition of Ground -- 3.1. C accent and pitch range widening -- 3.2. Büring's definition of Discourse Topic -- 3.3. Definitions of Ground and Given -- 4. Information Structure and word order -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The subject clitics of Conversational European French -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The corpus -- 3. Discussion of the data
Summary Twenty-one articles from the 31st LSRL investigate cutting-edge issues and interfaces across phonology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, semantics, and syntax in multiple dialects of such Romance languages as Catalan, French, Creole French, and Spanish, both old and modern. Research in Romance phonology moves from the quantitative and synchronic to cover issues of diachrony and Optimality theory. Work within pragmatics and sociolinguistics also explores the synchronic/diachronic link while topicalizing such issues as change of non-pro-drop Swiss French toward pro-drop status, scalar implicatures
Analysis Sprog Romanske sprog
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Romance languages -- Congresses
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Romance Languages (Other)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- French.
Romance languages
Romaanse talen.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Núñez, Rafael (Núñez Cedeño)
López, Luis, 1965-
Cameron, Richard, 1953-
ISBN 9789027296351
9027296359
9781588113740
1588113744