
New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics : Vol. I: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005.
Title:
New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics : Vol. I: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005.
Author:
Nishida, Chiyo.
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9789027293398
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1 online resource (304 pages)
Contents:
New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- A POLARITY-SENSITIVE DISJUNCTION -- TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT ROMANCE VN COMPOUNDS -- BEYOND DESCRIPTIVISM -- DO SUBJECTS HAVE A PLACE IN SPANISH? -- ON THE CONCEPTUAL ROLE OF NUMBER -- THE DIACHRONIC DEVELOPMENT OF A FRENCH INDEFINITE PRONOUN -- A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF ITALIAN DE-VERBAL NOUNS -- V-N COMPOUNDS IN ITALIAN -- A REINTERPRETATION OF QUIRKY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA IN SPANISH -- COGNITIVE CONSTRAINTS ON ASSERTION SCOPE -- AVANT QUE- OR AVANT DE-CLAUSES -- NULL DIRECTIONAL PREPOSTIONS IN ROMANIAN AND SPANISH -- A UNIFIED ACCOUNT FOR THE ADDITIVE AND THE SCALAR USES OF ITALIAN NEPPURE -- DEFAULT MORPHOLOGY IN SECOND LANGUAGE SPANISH -- EARLY OBJECT OMISSION IN CHILD FRENCH AND ENGLISH -- AGREEMENT PARADIGMS ACROSS MOODS AND TENSES -- ITALIAN VOLERCI: LEXICAL VERB OR FUNCTIONAL HEAD? -- RESTRUCTURING OF REVERSE PSYCHOLOGICAL PREDICATES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.
Abstract:
The target of investigation in the present study is the class of psychological predicates exemplified by gustar; this class demonstrates unique mapping properties that render it especially problematical and perplexing for English speakers acquiring Spanish as a second language and likewise vulnerable to alteration in contact and contracting varieties of Spanish. In the experiment reported herein, heritage Spanish speakers are shown to accept and produce particular non-target psychological predicate constructions. Their behavior is interpreted as revealing two 'optimization' strategies-Map the animate argument to the structural subject position and the inanimate argument to the structural object; and dedicate the preverbal position to the structural subject-which render the mapping more transparent.
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