"The chapters in this book represent the theme of "bridges" - bridging research approaches and directions across languages, methodologies and disciplines. Alongside descriptive and theoretical studies, the contributions present experimental studies addressing issues in syntax, phonetics-phonology and sociolinguistics. Alongside investigations of linguistic phenomena in standard Romance language varieties, other investigations address less well-known and studied, minority and endangered varieties (e.g., Quebec French, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Galician, Catalan and Palenquero) from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. Romance languages in contact with other languages and bilingualism, now also integral aspects of the field, are reflected in this volume as well, including less well-known cases of contemporary contact of Serbian with Romanian, and earlier contact of African languages with Spanish and Portuguese. This volume thus continues the decades long tradition of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages of embracing cutting-edge developments in the field"--.

• Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 16
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Variability in French word-final schwa
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. French schwa
  • 3. Present study
    • 3.1 Hypotheses
  • 4. Method
    • 4.1 Participants
    • 4.2 Stimuli
    • 4.3 Procedure
    • 4.4 Analyses
  • 5. Results
  • 6. Discussion
  • 7. Conclusions
  • References
• Agreement and pronouns
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Agreement mismatches with pronouns
  • 3. Agree and syntactically-dependent depictive secondary predicates
  • 4. On some agreement puzzles for PC PRO
    • 4.1 Floated quantifiers
    • 4.2 Agreement mismatches and the features of PC PRO
  • 5. Concluding remarks
  • References
• Person/Number exponents in imperative-enclitic contexts
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Morphological structure of imperatives and reflexive clitics
    • 2.1 Imperatives
    • 2.2 Reflexive enclitics
    • 2.3 Imperative-enclitic context resolutions
  • 3. OT account
  • 4. Conclusions
  • Funding
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
• French causal puisque-clauses in the light of (not)-at-issueness
  • Introduction
  • 1. Not-at-issueness of puisque-clauses
    • 1.1 Answer to question under discussion
    • 1.2 Challengeability
    • 1.3 Non-focusability
  • 2. Two types of projective content
    • 2.1 Projection
    • 2.2 Strong contextual felicity constraint
    • 2.3 Obligatory local effect
  • 3. Two sources of not-at-issueness
    • 3.1 Syntactic source (the puisque-implication)
    • 3.2 Lexical source (the B-implication)
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Funding
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• Geminates and vowel laxing in Quebec French
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Basics of Quebec French +High vowels
  • 3. Three strikes against NLNIVH in illicite
    • 3.1 ‘Long-distance’ is not ‘non-local’
    • 3.2 NLNIVH overgenerates and undergenerates
    • 3.3 Geminates to the rescue
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
• Number as an adjunct in Romance
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Number is encoded and interpreted on D
    • 2.1 Arguments from the literature
    • 2.2 Additional arguments
  • 3. Analysis
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Funding
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• A sociophonetic investigation of Mexico City Spanish vowel reduction
  • Introduction
  • Methodology
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Conclusions
  • References
• Computational quantitative syntax
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Typological data on Universal 18
  • 3. Accounts of language universals and Universal 18
    • 3.1 Structure-level accounts
    • 3.2 Grammar-level accounts
  • 4. Our approach to Universal 18
    • 4.1 Cross-linguistic corpus data
    • Corpus data for Latin and Ancient Greek
    • Preprocessing and collection of counts
    • Collected counts
    • 4.2 Results and discussion
  • 5. Towards a model explaining Universal 18
    • 5.1 Comparison of models 1 and 2
  • 6. Conclusions
  • References
• Trajectories of change in Spanish and Portuguese in the Americas
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Processes of language change in the Americas
    • 2.1 Dialect mixture
    • 2.2 Language contact
    • 2.3 Spontaneous changes in Latin American languages
  • 3. Parallel changes in Caribbean Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese
    • 3.1 Phonological reductions
    • 3.2 Morphosyntactic changes
      • 3.2.1 Subject pronoun expression
      • 3.2.2 Number agreement
      • 3.2.3 Negative repetition
  • 4. Explanation
    • 4.1 European sources for popular American varieties
    • 4.2 Language contact
    • 4.3 African sources
    • 4.4 Adult learner strategies
    • 4.5 Afro-Bolivian Spanish
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• Clause typing and Quebec French -tu
  • 1. General properties of -tu
    • 1.1 Distribution
      • 1.1.1 Interrogatives
      • 1.1.2 Exclamatives
      • 1.1.3 Declaratives: Narratives indicating surprise
      • 1.1.4 Imperatives
    • 1.2 Interpretation of -tu
  • 2. Proposal
    • 2.1 ‘Tu’ and Polarity
    • 2.2 ‘Tu’ and modality
    • 2.3 Analysis
  • 3. Accounting for the distributional restrictions
    • 3.1 Interrogatives
    • 3.2 Exclamatives
    • 3.3 Declaratives
    • 3.4 Imperatives
  • 4. Previous analyses
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
• The syntax of superlative phrases in Romance
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Prenominal superlatives
    • 2.1 Cinque’s (2010) dual source model
    • 2.2 A movement analysis of prenominal superlatives
    • 2.3 Elliptical superlatives as attributive superlatives
    • 2.4 Attributive superlatives are individual-based superlatives
    • 2.5 Summary
  • 3. Postnominal superlatives
    • 3.1 Kayne’s (2008) analysis
    • 3.2 My current proposal: Postnominal superlatives as predicates
    • 3.3 Why not a null noun
    • 3.4 The composition of postnominal superlatives
    • 3.5 Summary
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
• On recomplementation, high adverbs and V-movement in Spanish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Contrast between ES and LAS
  • 3. High adverbs and height of V-movement
  • 4. Analysis
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement
  • References
• Articles in an article-less language
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Romanian DP
  • 3. Serbian NP
  • 4. Code-switched TNP
    • 4.1 Distribution and issues
    • 4.2 Description and analysis
  • 5. Towards an analysis
  • 6. Constraints on CS: A brief discussion
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• Split auxiliary selection with affected subjects in Old Majorcan Catalan
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Previous accounts
  • 3. Our provisional analysis: The initiator-undergoer chain
  • 4. Fulfilled predictions
  • 5. A mixed system of auxiliary selection: person-driven and event-driven
  • 6. Final remarks
    • 6.1 A resultative construction?
    • 6.2 A nanosyntactic approach
  • Funding
  • Acknowledgement
  • References
• Palenque (Colombia)
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Palenque: Africa in Latin America
  • 3. Language dynamics from 1950–2000: Hypervaluation of perceived lexical Africanisms
  • 4. Palenque in the new millennium: Lengua revitalization, ethnic pride and the community-wide reappraisal of African archaisms
    • 4.1 Sociolinguistic changes post 2000
    • 4.2 The community-wide reappraisal of lexical African archaisms
      • 4.2.1 Integration of Lengua lessons into the school curriculum
      • 4.2.2 Grammar prescriptivism and the recasting of creole morphosyntax
  • 5. Summary and conclusion
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
• Inflected infinitives in Galician
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background to the present study
    • 2.1 The distribution of inflected infinitives in Portuguese
    • 2.2 Normative pressures and prescriptive norms
    • 2.3 Attestation in spoken corpora
  • 3. Methodology
  • 4. Results and discussion
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• Index