About the Book
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 that seek to establish general principles based on the analysis of a Romance language, others apply the principles of a particular theory to the solution of a problem in some Romance language, or provide data-oriented descriptions of linguistic phenomena in Romance languages.
Table of Contents:
1. Preface, pv; 2. Section I. French; 3. French reduplication limits the arbitrariness of the sign (by Allen, Andrew S.), p3; 4. Possessive a and de in informal Ontarian French: A long-standing case of linguistic variation (by Beniak, Edouard), p15; 5. Prenominal past pasticiples in French (by Birdsong, David), p37; 6. On agreement in person (by Casagrande, Jean), p51; 7. Formal representations of the French present tense (by Cintas, Pierre F.), p77; 8. Two aspectual structures illustrated by Pendant (by Mahler, Marguerite A.), p93; 9. Preposition - complementizers in French (by Vinet, Marie-Therese), p105; 10. Section II. Spanish; 11. Multiple questions in English and Spanish (by Contreras, Heles), p121; 12. Relativization (by D'Intorno, Francesco), p135; 13. Theories of phonological representation ans nasal consonants in Spanish (by Harris, James), p153; 14. An autosegmental approach to syllabification in Spanish (by Drexel Holt, Katherine), p169; 15. Personal 'a', kinesis and individualition (by Kliffer, Michael D.), p195; 16. Resumptive pronoun strategy in Spanish (by Quintero, Carolyn), p217; 17. A speech event analysis of tense and aspect in Spanish (by Silva-Corvalan, Carmen), p229; 18. Controlled pro (by Suner, Margarita), p253; 19. On linear order in Spanish (by Terker, Andrew), p275; 20. Phonological implications of the perception of -s and -n in Puerto Rico Spanish (by Ringer Uber, Diane), p287; 21. Section III. Varia; 22. Gemination in Italian (by Anderson, Eric W.), p303; 23. A formal basis for positing underlying segments in Occitan (by Belasco, Simon), p323; 24. Prosodic structure and the domain of assimilatory rules in old French (by Callahan, Christopher), p343; 25. Subjunctive complement in Rumanian (by Farkas, Donka F.), p355; 26. A linguistic environment for comparative Romance syntax (by Gross, Maurice), p373; 27. Word-final vowels in Romance: An instrumental analysis of Potuguese and Romanian (by Heidler, Donna J.), p447; 28. Reflections on old French Morpho(phono)logy (by Klausenburger, Jurgen), p461; 29. Saussure's French connection (by Koerner, E.F.K.), p475; 30. The mysteries of the Orient: Special problems in Romance etymology (by Menocal, Maria Rosa), p501; 31. Negative polarity and the Romance subjunctive (by Nathan, Geoffrey S.), p517; 32. Implications of neutralization processes in Portuguese for phonological abstactness (by Reider, Michael), p531; 33. Problems in the analysis of Portuguese participles in -do (by Schmitz, John Robert), p549; 34. Variable deletion of -s in Latin: Its consequences for Romance (by Wallace, Rex E.), p565; 35. Paradigm leveling in Latin and old Franch: A critical view of rule inversion (by Wetzels, W. Leo), p579; 36. Index of names, p601; 37. Index of languages, p605; 38. Subject index, p607
