Romance Linguistics 2013

Abstract

1. Introduction (by Tortora, Christina) 2. Root gerunds in Old Romanian (by Alboiu, Gabriela) 3. Old French possessives and ellipsis (by Arteaga, Deborah) 4. The generalization of preposition para via fusion and ensuing loss of compositionality (by Bauman, Joseph) 5. On capacities and their epistemic extensions (by Castroviejo Miro, Elena) 6. Beyond the subject DP versus the subject pronoun divide in agreement switches (by Fernandez Fuertes, Raquel) 7. Epistemic adverbs, the prosody-syntax interface, and the theory of phases (by Giorgi, Alessandra) 8. Romanian tough-constructions and multi-headed constituents (by Giurgea, Ion) 9. Depictive secondary predicates in Spanish and the relative/absolute distinction (by Gumiel-Molina, Silvia) 10. Gender agreement with animate nouns in French (by Ihsane, Tabea) 11. French loanwords in Korean: Modeling lexical knowledge in OT (by Jacobs, Haike) 12. Affirmative polar replies in Brazilian Portuguese (by Kato, Mary Aizawa) 13. Participle fronting and clause structure in Old and Middle French (by Labelle, Marie) 14. Toned-up Spanish: Stress --> pitch --> tone(?) in Equatorial Guinea (by Lipski, John M.) 15. On null objects and ellipses in Brazilian Portuguese (by Lopes, Ruth E.V.) 16. Age effects and the discrimination of consonantal and vocalic contrasts in heritage and native Spanish (by Mazzaro, Natalia) 17. The linguistic competence of second-generation bilinguals: A critique of incomplete acquisition (by Otheguy, Ricardo) 18. The X0 syntax of dative clitics and the make-up of clitic combinations in Gallo-Romance (by Pescarini, Diego) 19. Some notes on falloir, devoir, and the theory of control (by Reed, Lisa A.) 20. The phonology of postverbal pronouns in Romance languages (by Repetti, Lori) 21. From N to particle: Prepositionless home in the dialects of Northern Italy (by Rossi, Silvia) 22. Marsican deixis and the nature of indexical syntax (by Saltarelli, Mario) 23. Index