"This volume contains a selection of 18 peer-reviewed papers presented at the 31st edition of Going Romance. Phenomena found in Romance languages (European Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian), in Romance dialects (Cosentino, Salentino, southern Calabrese, Neapolitan, and Trevigiano), and even in creoles with a Romance lexifier (Makista and Kristang) either benefit from in-depth analyses confined to one single variety, or are subjected to comparative analysis (dialect vs standard language, dialect vs different major language(s), cross-dialectal comparison, cross-Romance comparison, and even comparison of language families). Theoretical and experimental approaches complement one another, as do diachrony and synchrony. Individually and as a whole, these contributions show how the Romance languages contribute to a better understanding of issues which are relevant in the current linguistic landscape: acquisition, n-words, ellipsis phenomena, focus and polarity, ditransitive constructions, grammaticalization theory, differential object marking, language ecology, event structure, cyclicity, passives and many more"--.

• ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTIC THEORY 2017
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Introduction
  • Contents of the volume
  • Acknowledgements: Peer-review and organisation of the conference
  • References cited
• The acquisition of verbal passives by Portuguese-speaking children: Some data from comprehension
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The passive in European Portuguese
  • 3. Experimental task: Predictions, procedure and results
  • 4. Discussion and conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Funding
  • References
• Plus in the French negative system: A presuppositional and non-quantificational n-word
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Negation in French
  • 3. The class of n-words
    • 3.1 “Half negations” (Muller 1991)
    • 3.2 Giannakidou’s definition
  • 4. Specificities of plus
    • 4.1 Plus is not quantificational
    • 4.2 Plus+n-word as phrases
    • 4.3 Plus is presuppositional
  • 5. Analysis
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• An experimental approach to parallelism in ellipsis: The case of pro-drop in Romance gapping
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Syntactic parallelism in gapping
  • 3. Experimental studies on pro-drop and gapping
    • Participants
    • Materials
    • Procedure
    • Results
    • Discussion
  • 4. A construction-based analysis of gapping
  • 5. Implications for the information structure and semantics of gapping
    • 5.1 Implications for information structure
    • 5.2 Implications for the semantic contrast
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • Funding
  • References
• On focal and wh-projections, indirect wh-questions, and quantificational chains
  • 1. Focal projections in the cartographic enterprise
    • 1.1 The left periphery of the clause
    • 1.2 The low periphery of the clause
  • 2. Foci and wh-phrases
    • 2.1 On Foc>Wh
  • 3. An analysis of clitic-doubled foci
    • 3.1 Enter featural relativized minimality
    • 3.2 Left peripheral external-merge
    • 3.3 Division of labour between the focalised NP and its doubling-clitic
  • 4. Further thoughts on chain-formation and the peripheries
    • 4.1 On ‘mild’ feature relations
    • 4.2 Peripheral focal- and wh-projections
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • Funding
  • References
• Is there a dative alternation in Romanian?: Remarks on the cross-categorial variation of datives in ditransitive constructions
  • 1. Background and aim
    • 1.1 The aim of the chapter
    • 1.2 Background, properties of Romanian ditransitives
  • 2. The structure of Romanian dative phrases
    • 2.1 Inflectional and prepositional marking
    • 2.2 Sensitivity to the animacy hierarchy
    • 2.3 The thematic range of datives in ditransitive constructions
    • 2.4 The internal structure of dative vs accusative la
    • 2.4 The internal structure of the inflectional dative phrase
  • 3. On the dual categorial status of datives in ditransitive constructions
    • 3.1 Aim of the section, framework of the analysis
    • 3.2 Multiple datives
    • 3.3 Narrow (asymmetric) scope
    • 3.4 The interference with Differential Object Marking (DOM)
    • 3.5 Non-configurational semantic effects of the Romanian dative alternation
  • 4. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
• The interpretation of null subjects in Romanian: An information-structure approach for comparative analysis
  • 1. The Null Subject Parameter and the interpretation of null subjects from an IS-perspective
    • 1.1 A short overview
    • 1.2 The Topic Criterion and the formation of Topic chains
  • 2. The experiment: Structure and methodology
    • 2.1 Objective and working hypothesis
    • 2.2 Structure and informants
  • 3. Data analysis: Results and discussion
    • 3.1 NS in the complement of a bridge verb
    • 3.2 NS in the complement of a factive verb
    • 3.3 NS in adverbial clauses
    • 3.4 Embedded DP as an intended antecedent
    • 3.5 NS embedded in clauses without an overt Topic in the matrix C-domain
  • 4. The Topic Criterion as a macro-parameter for NS languages: Conclusions and paths for future research
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Verum focus and Romanian polar questions
  • 1. Previous research on the intonation of polar questions in Romanian
  • 2. The neutral pattern of information-seeking polar questions
  • 3. On ‘verum focus’
  • 4. Experimental evidence for the claims about the neutral intonation of Romanian polar questions
  • 5. Other uses of the EF pattern with nuclear stress on V
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
• The downward grammaticalisation of irrealis subordinators in Romanian, Salentino and southern Calabrese
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Structural position of mu, cu, and să
  • 3. A unified etymology for Salentino cu and southern Calabrese mu
    • 3.1 Previous etymologies of cu and mu
    • 3.2 Quomodo
    • 3.3 The development of quomodo > cu/mu
  • 4. The development of Romanian să
  • 5. Downward grammaticalisation
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Differential object marking: What type of licensing?
  • 1. Differential object marking and licensing
  • 2. Differential object marking in Spanish
    • 2.1 Differential object marking as licensing
  • 3. Differential object marking in Romanian: Additional licensing
    • 3.1 Types of D0 in Romanian
    • 3.2 Differentially marked objects in Romanian
  • 4. Differential object marking in Neapolitan: More evidence for additional licensing
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• The effects of language ecology on syntactic structure: A look at Kristang and Makista
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data sources
  • 3. Competing views in creole studies
  • 4. Historical background
    • 4.1 Kristang
    • 4.2 Makista
    • 4.3 Kristang and Makista
  • 5. Common features
  • 6. Genitive
  • 7. Cleft constructions
  • 8. Conclusion
  • Abbreviations used
  • References
• The syntactic distribution of raddoppiamento fonosinttatico in Cosentino: A phase-theoretic account
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Cosentino RF: Initial overview
    • 2.1 RF-triggers
    • 2.2 Distribution: Core syntactic configurations
    • 2.3 Phase-theoretic interpretation of locality
  • 3. Pragmatico-semantic effects of RF
    • 3.1 Pragmatic mapping
    • 3.2 Coreference
  • 4. Further implications and extensions
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• The causative-inchoative alternation (as we know it) might fall short: Crosslanguage systematicities and untapped data from Romance and Greek
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A basic monadic eventless configuration
    • 2.1 Why not a null object?
    • 2.2 Eventless monoargumental (and eventless cause)
    • 2.3 Section summary
  • 3. Additional evidence
    • 3.1 Psych verbs
    • 3.2 Greek
    • 3.3 Section summary
  • 4. Final remarks
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• On wh-extraction in de+que constructions in Spanish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Proposal
    • 2.1 Phase-over-phase configurations and phase collapsing
    • 2.2 Successive cyclic movement
    • 2.3 Deriving the asymmetries in wh-extraction patterns in V+de+CP
  • 3. Conclusion
  • References
• On another apparent violation of the subject-island constraint in French
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 Aims and structure of this chapter
    • 1.2 Types of direct wh-interrogatives in French
  • 2. The data
  • 3. Theoretical background on extraction from DP and complex inversion in French
    • 3.1 Extraction from DPs in French
    • 3.2 Complex inversion in French
  • 4. Analysis
  • 5. Conclusions and outlook
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
  • Appendix
• Moving towards an event: The Romanian prepositional supine construction
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Types of supine constructions
    • 2.1 Clausal and prepositional supine
    • 2.2 Verbal and nominal supine
    • 2.3 Definite and bare supine
  • 3. The contribution of the lexical preposition
    • 3.1 The conative construction, the defeasible telos and the prepositional dative
    • 3.2 The prepositional supine and the unachieved goal
    • 3.3 Unfolding the unachieved goal meaning
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
• Cyclicity without containment in Romanian perfects
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Romanian perfects
  • 3. The stress system outside the perfect
  • 4. Perfect correspondence: Accentual evidence
  • 5. Alternatives
  • 6. Containment and the Romanian perfect
    • 6.1 Classes of strong perfects and perfect exponents
    • 6.2 Perfect correspondence
    • 6.3 Excursus: Perfect-infinitive correspondence
  • 7. Base Priority in the perfect and its source
  • References
• Syntactic vs pragmatic passive: Evidence from Romanian
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The evolution of se-structures
  • 3. The evolution of be-structures
  • 4. Evidence from dialectal oral varieties of Romanian
  • 4. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Corpus
  • References
• Index