The Germanic languages display cross-linguistic variation with respect to whether predicative adjectives agree. This paper attempts to determine which component of the grammar is responsible for this variation. In order to do so, it examines three different options: the variatio…
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the XII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held in April 1982 at Penn State University. These papers reflect the general state of the art in Romance Linguistics. Some of the studies are theoretical papers tha…
Semantic issues in Romance syntax
by Treviño, Esthela, Lema, José
fromCurrent issues in linguistic theory
All of the articles in this volume focus on the interaction of form and meaning. Most of them are developed under the principal thesis of the Minimalist Program. These works show that the theoretical linguistic trend is to discover semantic aspects which are assumed to have visi…
Grammatical theory and Romance languages: selected papers from the 25th Linguistic Symposiu…
by Zagona, Karen, Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Seattle, Wash.), Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Seattle, Wash
fromAmsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic S…
"In this volume Silvio Cruschina uses a comparative analysis to determine the syntax of the functional projections associated with discourse-related features, and to account for the marked word orders found in Romance-particularly in the fronting phenomena. Several language-spec…