Abstract
This volume, part of the series Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax, contains fourteen chapters, in addition to a foreword by the editors. It is devoted to the formal analysis of different aspects of American varieties of Portuguese and Spanish, while presenting their innovations with respect to their European counterparts. The papers collected have been presented at a meeting of the Romania Nova project and represent a wide range of topics in syntax, including null subjects and objects, complex predicates, clitics, and operator-variable constructions, besides one paper on morphology (truncated nominals). They explore these themes according to different theoretical assumptions and methodological tools.
Highlights
This volume grew from papers presented at a meeting of the Romania Nova project, organized by the same editors of the book
Because Spanish and Portuguese dialects have different characteristics in the Latin American context: (i) their sociolinguistic diversity is heavily based on diastratic variation; (ii) many of their particularities came out from situations of “deficient” second-language acquisition, possibly more than from a variety of “imported dialects” from Europe
Holm 2004: 15– 19, among others). This shows that the phenomena observed in Latin American dialects tend to be very different from those discussed in studies about European dialects
Summary
This volume grew from papers presented at a meeting of the Romania Nova project, organized by the same editors of the book.
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