Amastae Jon, Goodall Grant, Montalbetti M., Phinney M. (Eds.). Contemporary Research in Romance Linguistics

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1995. — 390 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 123).Papers from the XXII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, El Paso/Juárez, February 22–24, 1992This volume contains 23 papers selected from those presented at the 22nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. The papers address issues in phonology, morphology, syntax/semantics from contemporary theoretical perspectives. In addition, in keeping with the symposium's US-Mexico location and commemoration of the twin quincentenaries of Columbus' first voyage and the publication of Nebrija's grammar, several papers focus on the history of linguistic theory, language contact, variation, and change.Phonology
On the status of sequences of liquids in romance - Gorka Elordieta and Jon A. Franco
Glide fromation, prefixation, and the phonological word in French - S.J. Hannahs
Coda wieght and vowel length in Quebec French - Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil
On deletion rules in Catalan - Alfonso Morales-Front
The representation of French final consonants and related issues - Bernard TranelLanguage variation and contact
On old French genitive constructions - Deborah Arteaga
French presentational structures - William J. Ashby
The evolution of causative constructions in Spanish and Portuguese - Mark Davies
Is there an Indian Spanish? - Yolanda Lastra
From Lebrixa’s grammaar to Cartesian language theory: A retrojective view - Carlos P. Otero
The historical development of Rumanian /i/ - Peter R. Petrucci
Feature-checking and the syntax of language contact - Edward J. Rubin and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
Dialectal variation in an argumentation/non-argumental asymmetry in Spanish - Margarita Suñer and Carmen LizardiSyntax and Semantics
Primitives, metaphor and grammar - Denis Bouchard
On certain differences between Haitian and French predicative constructions - Michel DeGraff
Distinguishing copular and aspectual auxiliaries - José Lema
The VP-internal subject hypothesis and Spanish senyence structure - Errapel Mejías-Bikandi
The word order of constructions with a verb, a subject, and adirect object in spoken Spanish - Francisco Ocampo
Verb incorporation and the HMC in XVIth-century Spanish - Claudia Parodi
Non-thematic datives in Spanish - Marianna Pool
Restricting relativized minimality: the case of Romance clitics - Johan Rooryck
On the nature of SPEC/IP and its relevance for scope asymmetries in Spanish and English - María Uribe-Extebarria
The verbal component in Italian compounds - Irene Vogel and Donna Jo Napoli