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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, speech acts, word order, and simplification in contexts of language contact. Finally, debates in linguistic theory are resumed in the work on syntax and semantics within both a Minimalist perspective and an Optimality framework. How do Catalan and French children acquire AGR and TNS? Can Basque Spanish be compared to topic-oriented Chinese? If Spanish preverbal subjects occur in an A-position, can Spanish no longer be compared to Greek?
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A ROMANCE PERSPECTIVE ON LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE AND USE
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
Advisory Editorial Board 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)
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Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Luis López and Richard Cameron (eds) A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use. Selected papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LRSL), Chicago, 19–22 April 2001
A ROMANCE PERSPECTIVE ON LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE AND USE SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE 31ST LINGUISTIC SYMPOSIUM ON ROMANCE LANGUAGES (LSRL), CHICAGO, 19–22 APRIL 2001 Edited by
RAFAEL NÚÑEZ-CEDEÑO LUIS LÓPEZ RICHARD CAMERON University of Illinois, Chicago
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (31st : 2001 : Chicago, Ill.) A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use : selected papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19–22 April 2001 ; edited by Rafael NúñezCedeño, Luis López and Richard Cameron. p. cm. -- (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763 ; v. 238) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Romance languages--Congresses. I. Núñez, Rafael. II. López, Luis, 1965- III. Cameron, Richard, 1953- IV. Title. V. Series. PC11 .L53 2003 440--dc21 2003043713 ISBN 90 272 4750 1 (Eur.) / 1 58811 374 4 (US) (Hb; alk. paper) © 2003 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. • P.O.Box 36224 • 1020 ME Amsterdam • The Netherlands John Benjamins North America • P.O.Box 27519 • Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 • USA
Table of contents
Introduction and acknowledgment Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Luis López, and Richard Cameron
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Phonology and morphology Pronominal clitics in Picard revisited Julie Auger Spanish /s/: A different story from beginning (initial) to end (final) Esther L. Brown and Rena Torres Cacoullos Consonant intrusion in