Romance Linguistics 2010: Selected Papers From The 40th Linguistic Symposium On Romance Linguistics (lsrl), Seattle, Washington, March 2010

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This 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.

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ROMANCE LINGUISTICS 2010 CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCEâ•––â•–Series IV General Editor E.F.K. KOERNER Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin [email protected] Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (CILT) is a theory-oriented series which welcomes contributions from scholars who have significant proposals to make towards the advancement of our understanding of language, its structure, functioning and development. CILT has been established in order to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of linguistic opinions of scholars who do not necessarily accept the prevailing mode of thought in linguistic science. It offers an outlet for meaningful contributions to the current linguistic debate, and furnishes the diversity of opinion which a healthy discipline must have. A complete list of titles in this series can be found on http://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt Advisory Editorial Board Lyle Campbell (Manoa, Hawaii) Sheila Embleton (Toronto) Elly van Gelderen (Tempe, Ariz.) John E. Joseph (Edinburgh) Manfred Krifka (Berlin) Martin Maiden (Oxford) Martha Ratliff (Detroit, Mich.) E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.) Joseph C. Salmons (Madison, Wis.) Volume 318 Julia Herschensohn (ed.) Romance Linguistics 2010. Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Seattle, Washington, March 2010 ROMANCE LINGUISTICS 2010 SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE 40TH LINGUISTIC SYMPOSIUM ON ROMANCE LANGUAGES (LSRL), SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, MARCH 2010 Edited by JULIA HERSCHENSOHN University of Washington JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (40th : 2010 : Seattle, Washington)   Romance linguistics 2010 : selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Seattle, Washington, March 2010 / edited by Julia Herschensohn. p. cm. (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, issn 0304-0763 ; v. 318) Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1.  Romance languages--Congresses.  I. Herschensohn, Julia Rogers, 1945PC11.L53â•…â•… 2010 440--dc23 i