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This volume comprises sixteen peer-reviewed selected papers presented at the 45 th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), that took place on May 6-9, 2015, at the University of Campinas, Brazil. United by a common goal-the formal analysis of Romance languages-, these papers focus on a wide range of topics in different areas of grammar (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, plus interfaces), and in different research domains (L1 grammar, L2 acquisition, variation and change, bilingualism and language contact, code-switching). The Romance languages represented in this volume include Peninsular and American Spanish; European, Brazilian and Mozambican (Maputo) Portuguese; French; Italian and Italian dialects (especially Borgomanerese); and Palenquero, a Spanish-based creole. Most papers assume a comparative approach to the discussed topics. Overall, the papers present new data and new approaches to familiar structures, as well as new developments for less known phenomena.
Lingua, 2004
and around the world'' (p. xi). In their foreword to the proceedings of the first proceedings volume, Casagrande and Saciuk (1972: v) stated that ''[t]he aim of the Symposium was to bring forth novel contributions in the description of Romance languages, to draw attention to phenomena that might be of importance in the constant re-evaluation of our theoretical views, and to make available some insights into the nature of Romance languages which might be useful in the teaching of those languages.'' To be sure, the LSRL has been successful in achieving all of these goals during its now long and prestigious history. Although only one of the original participants of the first conference has a paper in the present volume (Rivero, 1972; see note, p. 169), many of the original participants remain active in the field today. The 19 authors of the 15 articles (including the introductory chapter) in this selected proceedings of LSRL XXX are from universities in Canada, France, Portugal, and the United States and they address grammatical issues in French (6 studies), Portuguese (3 studies), Romance (3 studies), and Spanish (3 studies). The proceedings of LSRL XXX appear in two volumes. A companion volume (Wiltshire and Camps, 2002) features selected refereed and revised papers on phonology and language variation. In their introductory chapter ('Romance syntax, semantics, and L2 acquisition,' pp. 1-8), the editors succinctly encapsulate the contents of this volume, and contemporary issues in theoretical, applied and Romance linguistics that the fifteen papers address, when they state that: This collection of papers illustrates the richness in the field of Romance linguistics and the important contributions of crosslinguistic research and multi-modular Lingua 114 (2004) 217-225 www.elsevier.com/locate/lingua
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The second article in this section "Towards a Unified Treatment of Spanish Copulas", by Arche, Fábregas, and Marín adds to the ongoing debate of the distribution of the Spanish copulas ser and estar by accounting for their alternation in adjectival and passive clauses in a unified way. They propose that the properties of passive clauses are due to the properties of the copulas and not the participles, and further argue that only estar has an additional component of central coincidence with a stative nature. Charnavel analyzes French scalar particles même, quand même, ne serait-ce que, and seulement and compares them to English particles even and only. Her article, "How French Sheds New Light on Scalar Particles" proposes a new theory based on specific characteristics such as scalarity, additivity, and exclusivity and provides new empirical evidence about these French particles, which, despite widespread assumptions, behave differently from their English counterparts. The last article of the Syntax-Semantics section is by Donazzan and Tovena and investigates the semantics of semelfactive predicates in Italian. In "Pluralities of Events: Semelfactives and a Case of 'Single Event' Nominalisation", the authors analyze the notion of plurality and unity of events by looking at the two possible readings that ata-nominalisations, i.e.: nuotata, ombrellata, receive in instrument semelfactive verbs. They conclude that semelfactives, in their processive readings, have to considered activity predicates. The second section of the volume includes articles on Morphosyntax, beginning with "Laísmo and 'le-for-les': To Agree or not to Agree?", by Adolfo Ausín and Francisco J. Fernández-Rubiera, a novel exploration of an old problem in nonstandard Spanish pronominal paradigms. They propose a unified account for three apparently unrelated phenomena: the presence of the accusative clitic, the presence/ absence of number agreement in the dative clitic ('le-for-les'), and the presence/absence of gender agreement in the dative clitic in laísta dialects ('le-for-la'). They propose that agreement in these two nonstandard dative clitic constructions is related
RLLT Series, 2022
as keynote speaker. This session focused on the syntax and semantics of partitive determiners and preposition-determiner contractions or omissions, the diachrony of P+D contractions and partitive determiners, on the morphology-phonology interface, as well as on the syntax-phonology interface. The program for each of the three days included equally remarkable keynote speakers: Birgit Alber (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) and Anna Gavarro (U. Autònoma de Barcelona), among a broad array of presentations and posters. We greatly thank the participation of our three keynote speakers. There were more than 500 registrants, and nearly 150 participants each day, perhaps a record for the Going Romance conference, coming from across United States, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Brazil, the Netherland and the United Kingdom. From the call for papers circulated in spring of 2020, we received over 130 abstracts, with topics on syntax, syntax-semantics interface, language acquisition, morphology, phonology, phonology-phonetics interface. 64 of which were accepted for oral presentation or poster at the conference or as alternate. Unlike previous Going Romance conferences, a high number of papers in phonetics and phonology were presented, a field that was marginal in the Going Romance tradition. Nonetheless, due to a rich set of languages data, the phonology session had a great impact among attending participants. The conference brought a great profit for students and scholars from other universities who become more and more interested in Romance linguistics. In many respects, the XXXIV Going Romance, as first digital edition during Covid-19 pandemic, was a very important event. It has provided us an opportunity to rethink the scientific conference, we have learnt transitioning to a digital conference. Given that this was the first time that the conference was organized digitally beyond frontiers, this conference raised high expectations in the linguistics community. In this collection, the papers reflect various interests in the field today. A wide range of Romance data (French, Italian, Ladin, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Romanian, Aromanian) of non-standard language varieties are presented and are crucial to authors' arguments. The papers, exposing novel phenomena, enrich our understanding of languages. Formal approaches to syntax and phonology are regularly applied, also to historical data. Grammatical phenomena dealt with in the papers in this volume are analyzed in different theoretical models such as generative syntax, the Minimalist Program, Nanosyntax, the Distributed Morphology and the Optimality Theory frameworks in their recent theoretical developments. In the papers on generative phonology, some authors used instrumental evidence to support their claim. Thereafter, twenty selected papers have been grouped into two very broad categories: Syntax, Morpho-Syntax, Semantics, Acquisition (15 papers) and Phonetics & Phonology (5 papers). Some articles have been left out by choice of the authors. The participating reviewers helped us organize the present volume. These articles greatly contribute to having new and better insights for a range of different intriguing linguistic phenomena. The following summaries should provide the reader with an orientation to the content of the volume. Elena Soare and Isabelle Roy's paper "Arguments and modifiers in deverbal nominals: Romanian Genitives and de-PPs" addresses the issue of the argument structure of agent and instrument-tor nominals in Romanian. In the literature, agent and instrument derived nominals continue to be a subject of debate with respect to whether they have an
Lingua, 1986
For the second year in a row, the well-known Dutch publishing house, John Benjamins has produced the proceedings of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. This prestigious annual conference always attracts the best current scholarship in the Romance languages.' Since a selection of the most outstanding papers from this congress is subsequently printed, the interested linguist can usually be assured of an anthology of high quality papers that reflect the most recent theoretical work in synchronic and diachronic analysis. In addition, these yearly volumes reflect the divergency of interest and form a microcosm of the ongoing polemics and shifts of interest in linguistics in general. The present volume contains twenty-one of the thirty-one papers delivered at the University of North Carolina in spring of 1983. Unlike its predecessor (Baldi (1984)), this collection simply arranges the chosen papers alphabetically rather than by language group or some other method of categorization. Likewise, there exists no critical commentary or other type of prefatory or introductory remarks on the individual chapters. Because of the need to publish these 'state-of-the-art' treatises quickly, writing explanatory introductions is often difficult if not impossible given the urgency of time constraints surrounding such an enterprise. Eleven of the papers included in this book concern Spanish, an additional seven deal with French, one examines Portuguese, another treats Gascon, and two involve general Romance. In this regard, there is little distributional difference from earlier volumes. At this point, an analysis of the individual chapters is now in order. * Nuessel (1985: 166-167) contains a brief history of the now well-established annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. 1986 will mark the first time in its history that this conference will return to a former site
F Nuessel D Birdsong and J P Montreiuil (Eds.) Advances in Romance Linguistics-1989
Lingua. Vol. 78, No. 1. Pp. 99-111., 1989
David Birdson and Jean-Pierre Montreuil were co-editors of the proceedings of annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance languages (LSRL-XVI) held at the University of Texas, Austin March 6-8, 1986. The papers deal with the following Romance languages: (1) French -9, (2) Spanish - 6, (3) Italian - 1, (4) Rhaeto-Romansch, (5) Spanish and Romance - 1), and (6) Romance - 4. There were three keynote speakers: Osvaldo Jaeggli, Donna Jo Napoli, and Donna Steriade.