Romance Linguistics 2008

Abstract

1. Acknowledgments 2. Editors' introduction: Interactions in Romance 3. Part 1. Language contact and bilingualism 4. Subject pronoun expression in bilinguals of two null subject languages (by Barnes, Hilary) 5. Where are hiatuses left?: A comparative study of vocalic sequences in Argentine Spanish (by Colantoni, Laura) 6. Loanword adaptation in the French of Spanish-speaking immigrants in Montreal (by Friesner, Michael L.) 7. Part 2. Phonology and interfaces 8. Morphology and phonology of word-final vowel deletion in spoken Tuscan Italian (by Garrapa, Luigia) 9. Relativization, intonational phrases and rich left peripheries (by Herdan, Simona) 10. Stress domain effects in French phonology and phonological development (by Rose, Yvan) 11. Part 3. Syntax and morphophonology 12. Syntactic realizations of plural in Romance and Germanic nominalizations (by Alexiadou, Artemis) 13. The syntax of Spanish parecer and the status of little pro (by Ausin, Adolfo) 14. Two types of (apparently) ditransitive light verb constructions (by Cuervo, Maria Cristina) 15. Modal ellipsis in French, Spanish and Italian: Evidence for a TP-deletion analysis (by Dagnac, Anne) 16. Optional prepositions in Brazilian Portuguese (by Kato, Mary Aizawa) 17. An apparent 'number case constraint' in Romanian: The role of syncretism (by Nevins, Andrew) 18. Part 4. Semantics and morphology 19. Generic bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese (by Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen) 20. Aspect shift in stative verbs and their arguments (by Rodriguez, Joshua) 21. Part 5. Psycholinguistics 22. Experimenting with wh-movement in Spanish (by Goodall, Grant) 23. How Spanish phonotactics informs psycholinuistic models of speech production (by Shelton, Michael) 24. Index