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Romance linguistics, 2012 : selected papers from the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Cedar City, Utah, 20-22 April 2012 /

This paper studies nominal expressions including a measure phrase (MP) in Spanish. Corver's (2009) Predicate Inversion analysis of similar patterns in other languages is critically reviewed, and an alternative proposal is presented within Den Dikken's (2006) theory of predication, whereby...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages Cedar City, Utah
Otros Autores: Smith, Jason A. (Jason Allen), 1974- (Editor ), Ihsane, Tabea (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
Colección:Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Romance Linguistics 2012; Editorial ; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Part I. Experimental approaches; The acquisition of clitics in L2 Spanish: Examining restrictions on clitic solidarity; 1. Introduction ; 2. Previous L2 research ; 3. Spanish clitics ; 3.1 The learning task for the L1 English speaker ; 3.2 Clitic solidarity ; 4. Research questions and hypotheses ; 5. Methodology ; 5.1 Participants ; 5.2 Judgment task ; 6. Results ; 7. Conclusions ; References ; Acquiring VP-ellipsis in Brazilian Portuguese: Evidence from a comprehension study; 1. Introduction.
  • 2. Previous studies on the acquisition of VPE 3. The study ; 3.1 Methodology ; 3.2 Subjects ; 3.3 Results ; 4. Discussion ; References ; Code-switching in the determiner phrase: French in contact with Moroccan and Tunisian Arabic; 1. Introduction; 2. Proposed syntactic constraints ; 2.1 The Functional Head Constraint ; 2.2 The Complement/Adjunct Distinction ; 2.3 Rationale for further investigation ; 3. The Determiner Phrase ; 3.1 The definite Determiner Phrase in French ; 3.2 The definite Determiner Phrase in Moroccan and Tunisian Arabic ; 3.3 Constraint predictions in the DP.
  • 4. Methodology 4.1 Experimental design ; 4.2 Subjects ; 5. Results ; 5.1 Results and constraint predictions ; 5.2 Statistical analysis of results ; 6. Discussion ; References ; How many "grammars" per "language"? Mapping the psycholinguistic boundaries; 1. Introduction ; 3. Previous observations of Spanish-LP mixing ; 4. The first experiments: Language identification ; 4.1 First-person plural verbs in -mo ; 4.2 Conjugated first-person singular verbs ; 4.3 Preverbal object clitics ; 4.4 Reactions to unidirectional intrasentential language shifts ; 5. Palenqueros talk back: Speech-shadowing.
  • 6. Spanish-LP mixing is not characteristic of all Palenqueros 7. Conclusions ; References ; Part II. Phonology; Nasal vowels are not [+nasal] oral vowels; 1. Introduction ; 1.1 The relationship between nasal vowels and oral vowels ; 1.2 Nasal vowels in Romance ; 1.3 Oro-pharyngeal differences in nasal-oral vowel pairs ; 1.4 Goals of the present study ; 2. Methods ; 2.1 Speakers ; 2.2 Materials ; 2.3 Instrumentation and data acquisition ; 2.4 Segmentation and measurement ; 3. Results ; 4. Discussion ; Acknowledgments ; References ; Labialization and palatalization in Judeo-Spanish phonology.