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Romance Linguistics 2008 : Interactions in Romance. Selected papers from the 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Urbana-Champaign, April 2008

The sixteen papers here united have been selected from the 38th Linguistic Symposium of the Romance Languages held in Champaign-Urbana in 2008. The papers, whose authors include both well-known researchers and younger scholars, cover a broad and truly interdisciplinary range of topics in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and their interfaces. Among the plethora of topics examined are stress in Quebec French, vowel deletion in Tuscan Italian, bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese, case in Romanian, and hiatus in Argentine Spanish. The volume's novelty is to extend the traditional scope
eBook, English, 2010
John Benjamins Pub. Co., Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2010
Conference papers and proceedings
1 online resource (280 pages)
9789027287878, 9781282775053, 9027287872, 1282775057
705533545
ROMANCE LINGUISTICS 2008; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Editors' introduction; Part 1: Language contact and bilingualism; Subject pronoun expression in bilinguals of two null subject languages; Where are hiatuses left?; Loanword adaptation in the French of Spanish-speaking immigrants in Montréal; Part 2: Phonology and interfaces; Morphology and phonology of word-final vowel deletion in spoken Tuscan Italian; Relativization, intonational phrases and rich left peripheries in Romanian