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Non-integrated conditionals as speech-event modifiers: evidence from Romance Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Nicola Munaro
Capitalizing on the basic distinction between central and peripheral adverbial clauses, the main aim of this contribution is to shed some light on certain left-right asymmetries in the distributional properties of integrated and non-integrated (concessive) conditional clauses in standard Italian, drawing indirect evidence from multiple complementizer constructions in (early) Romance. By exploring the
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An experimental study on the loss of VS order in monolingual and bilingual speakers of Brazilian Portuguese Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Esther Rinke, Cristina Flores, Priscila Oliveira, Liliana Correia
This paper presents an experimental approach to subject inversion in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). We investigated the acceptability of SV and VS sentences by two groups of speakers: monolingually-raised and bilingual heritage speakers of BP, using acceptability judgment tasks to test the effect of verb type, definiteness and pragmatic context. Results confirm that BP lost VS order with the exception
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Bilingual acquisition as the locus of syntactic change Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Jürgen M. Meisel
Some grammatical phenomena are more resistant to diachronic change than others. The syntactic core is particularly resilient, raising the question why this is the case and what causes the least vulnerable properties to change. Since fundamental alterations of grammars do not occur across the lifespan of adults, first language acquisition is commonly considered to be the main locus of syntactic change
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Is there hyper-raising in European Portuguese? Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Anabela Gonçalves, Madalena Colaço
Several languages allow for hyper-raising, a structure in which a DP that is interpreted as the subject of a finite complement clause is spelled-out as the subject of the matrix clause. Hyper-raising challenges certain core concepts of syntactic theory related to movement and locality. Various proposals have been made for analysing these structures, the main difference being whether the final position
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A unitary account of indicative/subjunctive mood choice Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Rui Marques
In some finite clauses only one of the subjunctive and indicative moods might occur, while in others there is option between these two moods. This is the basic distinction between intensional and polarity subjunctive. This paper questions the sustainability of such division in Portuguese, providing a critical analysis of the major arguments sustaining that those two types of subjunctive need to be
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The Portuguese pluperfect: diversity of forms, polysemy and interaction with adjuncts Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Telmo Móia
This paper discusses the contemporary use of the Portuguese simple and two compound pluperfect forms (with the auxiliary verbs ter, and haver) of the indicative mood in written texts. Four topics are addressed. First, the claim that the simple pluperfect is currently a defective paradigm lacking the third person plural; this claim is confirmed and substantiated by looking at specific distinguishing
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Form Copy, Agree and Clitics Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Ian Roberts
Here it is proposed that Form Copy (Chomsky, Noam, T. Daniel Seely, Robert C. Berwick, Sandiway Fong, M. A. C. Huybregts, Hisatsugu Kitahara, Andrew McInnerney, Yushi Sugimoto. 2023. Merge and the strong minimalist thesis. In Cambridge elements. Cambridge University Press), applied to features, can derive a very simple form of Agree without the need for the distinction between interpretable and uninterpretable
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The grammaticalization and grammatical meaning of a ‘do’ support verb in the northern Italian Camuno dialect Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Nicola Swinburne
This paper provides a case study of the grammaticalization of ‘do’ as a support verb in the northern Italian dialect of Camuno. It demonstrates the relative compatibility of fa ‘do’ with different semantic types of supported verbs through the results of an elicitation experiment. A comparison of results from adjacent dialects reveals a series of progressively more grammaticalized forms with three stages:
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Feature Acquisition: Object Drop in L2 Spanish Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Acrisio Pires
This paper investigates the L2 acquisition of Spanish object drop by advanced learners whose L1s are English and Brazilian Portuguese, in order to assess effects on their knowledge of the interpretable and uninterpretable features conditioning the realization of object drop in their L2 Spanish. Object drop in Spanish is subject to semantic restrictions related to definiteness and specificity, as well
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Latin verbal morphology and the diachronic development of its thematic and athematic constructions Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Andrea Calabrese
This paper investigates the verbal morphology of Latin in terms of the theoretical framework of Distributed Morphology (DM). In addition to providing a synchronic analysis of the verbal system of Latin, this paper discusses the development of the thematic vowel system and of athematic perfect forms in this language from their reconstructed Proto-Indo-European (PIE) antecedents and demonstrates the
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Deverbal adjectives with episodic value in French: evidence for mixed categories Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Marie Laurence Knittel
This article examines the semantic and syntactic properties of French deverbal adjectives ending in ¬-ant, and shows that a subpart of these forms, while behaving as adjectives with regards to agreement and predicative position, are episodic and imperfective, similarly to present participles, whose suffix is formally similar. We first observe the various readings of -ant adjectives, i.e. dispositional
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Disyllabic hypocoristics in Chilean Spanish: a stratal OT analysis Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Matthew King
Hypocoristics have received considerable interest from phonologists in recent decades, particularly within the Optimality-theoretic literature. While most of these analyses have been situated in parallelist OT, I claim that this architectural choice entails hidden complexities. It is cross-linguistically common for multiple hypocoristics to be formed from a single proper noun, e.g., Matthew → Matt/Matty
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Epistemic modality and grounding: constructions expressing positive epistemic judgement in Spanish and Italian from the perspective of cognitive grammar (with particular reference to the verbs credere and creer) Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Dana Kratochvílová
This paper examines the means of expressing positive epistemic judgement in Spanish and Italian: modals in their epistemic interpretation, epistemic adverb + indicative/subjunctive, with particular attention to the verbs creer/credere and their possible combination with the subjunctive. The constructions are analysed through the prism of cognitive grammar, specifically Langacker’s theory of grounding
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Negation and Verb-Movement in Romance: New Perspectives on Jespersen’s Cycle Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Adam Ledgeway, Norma Schifano
In this article we bring to light one additional factor underlying so-called Jespersen’s Cycle (JC) in Romance which has to date gone unnoticed, namely the varying position of the finite verb within the IP. More specifically, we show that there exists an empirical correlation between the availability of clause-medial/high verb-movement and Stages II–III of JC in which a postverbal negator is licensed
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French Predicate Anaphora, Comparatives, and Ellipsis Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 J.-Marc Authier
While French does not display the kind of VP-ellipsis found in languages like English, it effects verbal anaphora by means of two constructions that have received relatively little attention in the literature. Both of these combine the generic ‘action verb’ faire ‘do’ with what appears to be a pronoun. The first one, which I call le-faire anaphora (LFA), uses the clitic le, whereas the second one,
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Hypercomplex Inversion and the Status of Expletive Pronouns Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-17 Richard S. Kayne
French hypercomplex inversion can be used as a probe into the question whether or not the language faculty countenances the existence of true expletive pronouns, i.e. pronouns that make no interpretive contribution of any kind. The conclusion is that there are no expletive pronouns (in any language) in the strict sense of the term.
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Cooperativity Markers in the Left Periphery. Evidence from Sicilian and from Lombard Italian Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Salvatore Menza, Valentina Bianchi
This paper investigates two Italo-Romance discourse particles, which we analyze as ‘cooperativity markers’, conveying the conventional implicature that a future action to be accomplished by the speaker fulfills a set of maximal preferences that they share with the addressee; by means of this implicature, the speaker conveys that they intend their action to be cooperative. We show that clauses introduced
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Non-finite Verb Movement in Romance Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Kim A. Groothuis
Abstract Since Pollock, Jean-Yves. 1989. Verb movement, universal grammar, and the structure of IP. Linguistic Inquiry 20. 365–424, it is well known that Romance finite verbs move into the I-domain. However, the relationship between finiteness and verb movement has not yet been investigated in detail. The aim of the present study is to trace and analyse verb movement in various types of non-finite
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Passives of Spanish Subject-Experiencer Psychological Verbs are Adjectival Passives Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Alfredo García-Pardo,Rafael Marín
Abstract This paper argues that constructions with subject-experiencer psychological verbs are adjectival passives, contra the received view that constructions are verbal passives across the board. We put forth a battery of morphological, syntactic and semantic tests to support our claim. The divide, we argue, is based on the individual-level/stage-level distinction, rather than on the lexical category
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Experimental Evidence on Island Effects in Spanish Relative Clauses Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Laura Stigliano,Ming Xiang
Abstract Research on islands has been central to linguistic theory for more than 50 years. Its importance relies on the theoretical consequences islands posit for movement and long distance dependencies. In this paper we aim to explore the contrast between a variety of islands in Spanish relative clauses to reveal whether there is any gradience in the strength of the island effects. In order to tease
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Experimental Evidence on Island Effects in Spanish Relative Clauses Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Laura Stigliano,Ming Xiang
Abstract Research on islands has been central to linguistic theory for more than 50 years. Its importance relies on the theoretical consequences islands posit for movement and long distance dependencies. In this paper we aim to explore the contrast between a variety of islands in Spanish relative clauses to reveal whether there is any gradience in the strength of the island effects. In order to tease
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Spanish usted as an imposter Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-31 Chris Collins,Francisco Ordóñez
Abstract Across dialects, Spanish uses the third person forms usted and ustedes to refer to the addressee. In this squib, we propose an imposter analysis of these forms in the framework of Collins and Postal (2012. Imposters. MIT Press, Cambridge.).
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Spanish usted as an imposter Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-30 Chris Collins,Francisco Ordóñez
Abstract Across dialects, Spanish uses the third person forms usted and ustedes to refer to the addressee. In this squib, we propose an imposter analysis of these forms in the framework of Collins and Postal (2012. Imposters. MIT Press, Cambridge.).
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Word Prosody in Lung’Ie: One System or Two? Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Ana Lívia Agostinho,Larry M. Hyman
Abstract Creole languages have generally not figured prominently in cross-linguistic studies of word-prosodic typology. In this paper, we present a phonological analysis of the prosodic system of Lung’Ie or Principense (ISO 639-3 code: pre), a Portuguese-lexifier creole language spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe. Lung’Ie has produced a unique result of the contact between the two different prosodic systems
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Word Prosody in Lung’Ie: One System or Two? Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-04-27 Ana Lívia Agostinho,Larry M. Hyman
Abstract Creole languages have generally not figured prominently in cross-linguistic studies of word-prosodic typology. In this paper, we present a phonological analysis of the prosodic system of Lung’Ie or Principense (ISO 639-3 code: pre), a Portuguese-based creole language spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe. Lung’Ie has produced a unique result of the contact between the two different prosodic systems
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Microvariation in Verbal and Nominal Agreement: An Analysis of Two Lombard Alpine Dialects Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-04-26 Diego Pescarini
Abstract In Bregagliotto and Mesolcinese, two Lombard Alpine dialects, feminine plural agreement/concord is marked by the formative -n, a reflex of the third person plural verbal ending. In Bregagliotto, plural -n triggers mesoclisis of the feminine subject clitic in contexts of inversion, whereas in the noun phrase -n behaves as a second-position element marking plural feminine concord. Mesolcinese
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Microvariation in Verbal and Nominal Agreement: An Analysis of Two Lombard Alpine Dialects Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-04-26 Diego Pescarini
Abstract In Bregagliotto and Mesolcinese, two Lombard Alpine dialects, feminine plural agreement/concord is marked by the formative -n, a reflex of the third person plural verbal ending. In Bregagliotto, plural -n triggers mesoclisis of the feminine subject clitic in contexts of inversion, whereas in the noun phrase -n behaves as a second-position element marking plural feminine concord. Mesolcinese
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Simple Monotransitive and Complex Dative Alternation Predicates in Spanish Monolingual Child Acquisition Data Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Silvia Sánchez Calderón
Abstract This work analyzes the acquisition of simple and complex constructions in Spanish monolingual children’s data. It examines the emergence and the role played by adult input in child production of simple monotransitive constructions when compared to two types of complex predicates that undergo dative alternation (DA), namely, a/para-datives and dative-clitic doubled (DCLD) structures. In order
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Simple Monotransitive and Complex Dative Alternation Predicates in Spanish Monolingual Child Acquisition Data Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Silvia Sánchez Calderón
Abstract This work analyzes the acquisition of simple and complex constructions in Spanish monolingual children’s data. It examines the emergence and the role played by adult input in child production of simple monotransitive constructions when compared to two types of complex predicates that undergo dative alternation (DA), namely, a/para-datives and dative-clitic doubled (DCLD) structures. In order
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Clause Structure and Illocutionary Force in Medieval Gallo-Romance: Clitic Position in Old Occitan and Early Old French Sentential Coordination Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-04-09 Bryan Donaldson
Abstract This paper analyzes the position of object and adverbial clitic pronouns in coordinated affirmative verb-first declaratives introduced by e(t) “and” in Old Occitan and early Old French, a context in which clitics are variably preverbal or postverbal. An empirical study reveals that this variation is principled and reflects semantico-discursive properties in the same way in these two related
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On the Acquisition of French (Null) Subjects and (In)Definiteness: Simultaneous and Early Sequential bi-, tri- and Multilinguals Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-04-09 Laia Arnaus Gil,Johanna Stahnke,Natascha Müller
Abstract The French non-null-subject parameter is set very early, irrespective of the number of languages acquired. By contrast, the acquisition of (in)definiteness marking takes place at age 11;0. For early parametrized grammatical phenomena, Tsimpli (Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria. 2014. Early, late or very late? Timing acquisition and bilingualism. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4(3). 283–313.) argues
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On the Acquisition of French (Null) Subjects and (In)Definiteness: Simultaneous and Early Sequential bi-, tri- and Multilinguals Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Laia Arnaus Gil,Johanna Stahnke,Natascha Müller
Abstract The French non-null-subject parameter is set very early, irrespective of the number of languages acquired. By contrast, the acquisition of (in)definiteness marking takes place at age 11;0. For early parametrized grammatical phenomena, Tsimpli (Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria. 2014. Early, late or very late? Timing acquisition and bilingualism. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4(3). 283–313.) argues
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Clause Structure and Illocutionary Force in Medieval Gallo-Romance: Clitic Position in Old Occitan and Early Old French Sentential Coordination Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Bryan Donaldson
Abstract This paper analyzes the position of object and adverbial clitic pronouns in coordinated affirmative verb-first declaratives introduced by e(t) “and” in Old Occitan and early Old French, a context in which clitics are variably preverbal or postverbal. An empirical study reveals that this variation is principled and reflects semantico-discursive properties in the same way in these two related
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Analogical Levelling in the Majorcan Catalan Demonstrative System Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-03-29 Emanuela Todisco,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes,Kenny R. Coventry
Abstract Demonstratives are cross-linguistically widespread expressions. The use of demonstratives is flexible due to their semantic elasticity, which allows them to describe more or less extensive regions or referents in a communicative scenario. The constant remapping between demonstratives and referents might lead to a restructuring of the deictic system itself in accordance with the parameters
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Analogical Levelling in the Majorcan Catalan Demonstrative System Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-03-29 Emanuela Todisco,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes,Kenny R. Coventry
Abstract Demonstratives are cross-linguistically widespread expressions. The use of demonstratives is flexible due to their semantic elasticity, which allows them to describe more or less extensive regions or referents in a communicative scenario. The constant remapping between demonstratives and referents might lead to a restructuring of the deictic system itself in accordance with the parameters
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On the Syntax of French Qu’est-ce que Clauses and Related Constructions Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-12-25 Jean-Yves Pollock
Abstract In the Romance domain, French is unique in having homophonous interrogative, exclamative and relative constructions sharing the same Que+est+ce+que string. The main goal of this article is to shed light on this enigmatic sequence. It will do so by investigating the rarely studied syntax of que, combien and ce que exclamatives and relatives and will show that the sequence initial Que in their
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On the Syntax of French Qu’est-ce que Clauses and Related Constructions Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Jean-Yves Pollock
Abstract In the Romance domain, French is unique in having homophonous interrogative, exclamative and relative constructions sharing the same Que+est+ce+que string. The main goal of this article is to shed light on this enigmatic sequence. It will do so by investigating the rarely studied syntax of que, combien and ce que exclamatives and relatives and will show that the sequence initial Que in their
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Elastic s+C and Left-moving Yod in the Evolution from Latin to French Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Tobias Scheer,Philippe Ségéral
Abstract Elastic s+C is the idea that s+C clusters are heterosyllabic by default in all languages, and that some repair will occur in case, pending on language-specific circumstances, a heterosyllabic parse is illegal (preceding long vowel, preceding coda, beginning of the word). The repair at hand is the branching of the s on the following empty nucleus. This generalization is derived from the behaviour
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Morpho-syntactic Variation in Romance v: A Micro-parametric Approach Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Ángel J. Gallego
Abstract This paper discusses a series of morpho-syntactic properties of Romance languages that have the functional projection vP as its locus, showing a continuum that goes from strongly configurational Romance languages to partially configurational Romance languages. It is argued that v-related phenomena like Differential Object Marking (DOM), participial agreement, oblique clitics, auxiliary selection
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The Development of Exceptional Case Marking in Romance with a Particular Focus on French Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Michelle Sheehan
Abstract This paper traces the development of so-called Exceptional Case Marking (ECM) under perception, permissive and causative verbs in Romance. Synchronically, we can observe various patterns in the distribution of ECM complements under these verbs. In Portuguese and Spanish, ECM is often possible under all permissive and causative verbs, whereas in French, Catalan and Italian it is usually restricted
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From Motion to Desire: The Grammaticalization of a Change of Location Unaccusative Construction in Romanian Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Adina Dragomirescu,Alexandru Nicolae
Abstract This paper documents the steps and analyses the processes by which a concrete change of location unaccusative construction based on a venitive verb grammaticalizes in Romanian as a modal construction exhibiting a variety of desiderative meanings, the most prominent of which is the urge-type of desiderative meaning. This diachronic change is atypical: the venitive verb underwent desemanticization
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DP-internal Inversion and Negative Polarity: Latin aliquis and its Romance Descendants Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Chiara Gianollo
Abstract I analyze the Romance descendants of Latin aliquis ‘some or other’, which are characterized by a complex pattern of variation in the contemporary Romance languages. I account for this variation in terms of diverging diachronic paths, tracing their determinants back to a process taking place between Classical and late Latin. Classical Latin only used aliquis as an epistemic indefinite, expressing
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Pathways of Grammaticalisation in Italo-Romance Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Luigi Andriani,Kim A. Groothuis,Giuseppina Silvestri
Abstract The aim of this contribution is to discuss three possible theoretical interpretations of grammaticalised structures in present-day Italo-Romance varieties. In particular, we discuss and analyse three diachronic case studies in relation to the generative view of grammaticalisation. The first case-study revolves around the expression of future tense and modality. This is discussed in the light
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Remarks on the Role of the Perfect Participle in Italian Morphology and on its History Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Andrea Calabrese
Abstract Since (Aronoff, Mark. 1994. Morphology by itself. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press), the disparate morphosyntactic roles that past participle forms have in Latin (and Italian) morphology have played a central role in arguing for morphomic approaches. In this article, I will propose an alternative analysis of the special behavior of these participle forms in Distributed Morphology (DM, Halle Morris
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From dative to accusative. An ongoing syntactic change in Romance Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-04-28 Anna Pineda
Abstract In several Romance languages, including Catalan, Spanish, Asturian and Neapolitan, several verbs (‘phone’, ‘answer’, ‘shoot’, ‘rob’, among others) can take a dative- or accusative-marked complement. I argue that this alternation is indeed a transition from dative to accusative; that is, it is a process of syntactic change, with different stages of evolution depending on the dialectal or even
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Processing subject focus across two Spanish varieties Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-04-28 Bradley Hoot, Tania Leal
Abstract Linguists have keenly studied the realization of focus – the part of the sentence introducing new information – because it involves the interaction of different linguistic modules. Syntacticians have argued that Spanish uses word order for information-structural purposes, marking focused constituents via rightmost movement. However, recent studies have challenged this claim. To contribute
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On the left periphery of Spanish indirect interrogatives Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-04-28 José María García-Núñez
Abstract Spanish doubly filled complementizer (DFComp) clauses differ from plain embedded questions in a number of respects (availability of discourse-related projections, islandhood, sequence of tenses, licensing of discourse particles). I argue that the contrast is caused by the presence in the left periphery of these clauses of an illocutionary projection (Haegeman 2004, 2006; Coniglio and Zegrean
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On the comparative analysis of French (ne) … que exceptives Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-04-28 J.-Marc Authier
Abstract This article takes a close look at recent proposals that French (ne) … que exceptives are hidden comparatives involving two silent elements: a covert n-word and a phonologically unrealized autre ‘other’ introducing a partially elided comparative clausal standard headed by que ‘than’. I show that assuming the constant presence of an n-word in the exceptive construction allows us to provide
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Null subjects and null objects in monolingual and bilingual children: a commentary Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-09-25 Natascha Müller
The occurrence of cross-linguistic influence has been widely attested in the speech of bilingual children at different levels of linguistic description: in phonological, morphological and syntactic domains. One of the most studied grammatical domains is the realization/omission of subjects. Most scholars have looked at the combination of the two null-subject languages Spanish or Italian with the non-null-subject
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L1 variation in object pronominalisation, and the import of pragmatics Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-09-25 Anna Gavarró
Abstract Much work on referential expressions in monolingual and bilingual acquisition rests on the assumption that early grammars licence null objects even when they are not possible in the corresponding target grammar, in virtue of discourse-pragmatic licencing. This proposal has been made mainly with reference to third person object pronominalisation. Less attention has been given to other pronouns
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Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual language acquisition: Determining onset and end Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-09-25 Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes
Abstract In this paper we review current novel work across several languages and instances of bilingual acquisition (2L1 and child L2), whose focus is on the syntax and semantics of different linguistic phenomena with a range of naturalistic and experimental methodologies (e. g. grammaticality judgments, truth-value judgment task, semantics entailment experiments in on-line and off-line modalities
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Subject omission/production in child bilingual English and child bilingual Spanish: the view from linguistic theory Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-09-25 Juana M. Liceras, Raquel Fernández Fuertes
Abstract In bilingual child language acquisition research, a recurrent learnability issue has been to investigate whether and how cross-linguistic influence would interact with the non-adult patterns of omission/production of functional categories. In this paper, we analyze the omission/production of subject pronouns in the earliest stage English grammar and the earliest stage Spanish grammar of two
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Peripheral cross-linguistic interference in the acquisition of accusative clitics by Romanian–Hungarian simultaneous bilinguals Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-09-25 Veronica Tomescu, Larisa Avram
Abstract This paper presents the results of the first study of the acquisition of Accusative clitics in Romanian by Romanian–Hungarian bilingual children. Our data show that the acquisition route is similar to the one in a monolingual setting. An interesting observation which arises from this study is that two structures which are superficially similar in the two languages favour the occurrence of
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Phases, labeling, antilocality and intonational phrases: recomplementation in Spanish Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-05-27 Gabriel Martínez Vera
Abstract This paper addresses recomplementation (i.e. double-complementizer constructions) in Spanish, comparing Latin American Spanish (LAS) and European Spanish (ES). I make the novel observation that in spite of a superficial difference whereby a lower que after a left dislocate (LD) surfaces in ES but not in LAS, LAS does have recomplementation. In fact, LAS patterns with ES in that there are two
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Focus Fronting in Spanish: Mirative implicature and information structure Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-05-27 Silvio Cruschina
Abstract In Romance, Focus Fronting (FF) is generally related to a contrastive or corrective function. In this paper, I show that Spanish may resort to FF to express a special evaluative meaning, namely, a mirative (conventional) implicature of surprise and unexpectedness. Mirative FF is problematic for the traditional analyses of FF because it is not necessarily contrastive and does not guarantee
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Syllabically-driven stricture effects in Majorcan Catalan high vocoids Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-05-27 Jesús Jiménez, Maria-Rosa Lloret, Clàudia Pons-Moll
Abstract This paper analyzes the variation found in Majorcan Catalan regarding the realizations of /i/ and /u/ in contact with other vowels, which depend on the nature of the vocoids themselves, the syllabic position in which they occur, their surrounding segmental context, and the geographic origin of the speakers. Leaving aside faithful hiatic solutions, their realizations range from different degrees
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Gerunds become prepositional infinitives in Romance Small Clauses: The effects of later Merge to the syntactic spine Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-05-27 Jan Casalicchio
Abstract This article offers a comparative analysis of “predicative” gerunds (“PGs”) and prepositional infinitives (“PIs”), focussing on perception constructions in Spanish (PGs) and European Portuguese (PIs). I demonstrate that these two constructions are diachronically related and that they still have a similar syntax. The evidence discussed suggests that both constructions are Small Clauses headed
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Not a fact: A synchronic analysis of el hecho de and o facto de Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-05-27 Patrícia Amaral, Manuel Delicado Cantero
Abstract This paper provides empirical evidence showing that the clause-taking nominals el hecho de (Spanish) and o facto de (Portuguese) are not reliable tests of factivity of predicates, as commonly assumed in the literature. Naturally occurring data from both languages show that these nominals are compatible with a wide range of predicates and that they occur in sentences with both factive and non-factive
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Focus in Italian echo wh-questions: An analysis at syntax-prosody interface Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-05-27 Linda Badan, Claudia Crocco
Abstract In this article, we propose an analysis of the so-called echo wh-questions in situ in Italian at syntax–prosody interface. We conduct a prosodic analysis under an experimental approach, showing that a focalized wh-word in echo wh-questions shows its own peculiar properties, different from informative and corrective focus, so that we can analyze it as an instance of Mirative focus. We demonstrate
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Unconditional readings and the simple conditional tense in Spanish: inferentials, future-oriented intentionals, future-in-the-past Probus (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2018-08-28 María Luisa Rivero, Ana Arregui
Abstract This paper offers a compositional interpretation of Spanish simple conditional morphology (cantaría ‘would sing’) in independent sentences set within the semantic situations framework. It proposes that Spanish simple conditional morphology is composed of (a) a past component that encodes a topic situation, (b) a universal future operator with either an epistemic flavor or a temporal (i.e.