Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition: Selected Papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000

259 Pages·2001·10.36 MB·English

by  Joaquim Camps

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ROMANCE SYNTAX, SEMANTICS AND L ACQUISITION
AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND
HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE
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E.F. KONRAD KOERNER
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Series IV – CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY
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Volume 216
Joaquim Camps and Caroline R. Wiltshire (eds)
Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition.
Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages,
Gainesville, Florida, February 2000.
ROMANCE SYNTAX, SEMANTICS
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AND L ACQUISITION
SELECTED PAPERS FROM
THE 30TH LINGUISTIC SYMPOSIUM
ON ROMANCE LANGUAGES
Gainesville, Florida, February 2000
Edited by
JOAQUIM CAMPS
CAROLINE R. WILTSHIRE
University of Florida, Gainesville
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Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (30th : 2000 : Gainesville, Florida)
Romance syntax, semantics and L2 acquisition : selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Sympo-
sium on Romance Languages : Gainesville, Florida, February 2000 / edited by Joaquim Camps,
Caroline R. Wiltshire.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The papers selected for inclusion in this volume originated as
presentations at the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Symposium
on Romance Languages (LSRL 30), with parasession on Current Issues in
Romance Language Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition,
which took place February 24-27, 2000, at the University of Florida,
Gainesville, Florida.
The editors gratefully acknowledge the scholars listed below for their
generous assistance, first, in selecting the papers to be presented at LSRL 30,
and later, for reviewing those submitted for inclusion in the selected papers
from the conference:
Michel Achard, Theresa Antes, Joseph Aoun, Julie Auger, J.-Marc
Authier, Ignacio Bosque, Diana Boxer, Barbara Bullock, Andrea
Calabrese, Vicki Carstens, J. Clancy Clements, Heles Contreras,
Michel deGraf, Anne-Marie DiSciullo, Donca Farkas, Ralph Fasold,
Randall Gess, Grant Goodall, Jorge Guitart, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach,
S.J. Hannahs, Galia Hatav, Julia Herschensohn, Larry Horn, José
Ignacio Hualde, Haike Jacobs, Richard Janda, Renée Jourdenais,
Ellen Kaisse, Richard Kayne, Paula Kempchinsky, Jurgen
Klausenburger, Juana M. Liceras, John M. Lipski, Andrew Lynch,
Enrique Mallén, Fernando Martínez-Gil, Diane Massam, Gary Miller,
Jean-Pierre Montreuil, Richard Morris, Carole Paradis, Ana T. Pérez-
Leroux, David Pharies, Eric Potsdam, Lisa Reed, Lori Repetti, Susana
Rivera-Mills, María Luisa Rivero, Yves Roberge, Ana Roca, Nuria
S agarra, Mario Saltarelli, Lisa Selkirk, Ester Torrego, Rena Torres
Cacoullos, Christina Tortora, Barbara Vance, Co Vet, Daniel Villa,
Marie-Thérèse Vinet, Dieter Wanner, Ratree Wayland, Ann
Wehmeyer, Lydia White, Karen Zagona, Mary L. Zampini, Maria
Luisa Zubizarreta, and Jan-Worter Zwart
Additional thanks to Bill Calin and D.Gary Miller for their Outreach lectures,
to Jean and Juanita Casagrande for their tireless service on the LSRL 30
organizing committee, to Maritza Bell-Corrales, Jodi Bray, Jodi Nelms, and
other UF graduate students in Linguistics and Romance who made the
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conference work, and to Jodi Bray, Konrad Koerner, and Anke de Looper for
their assistance in editing this volume.
Finally, neither the LSRL 30 conference nor this volume would have
been possible without the financial support of the following University of
Florida units:
The Program in Linguistics
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
The Office of Research and Graduate Programs
The English Language Institute
Joaquim Camps & Caroline R. Wiltshire
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
& Program in Linguistics
University of Florida, Gainesville
Box 117405
Gainesville, FL 32611-7405
U.S.A.
May 18,2001
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments v
List of contributors ix
Romance Syntax, Semantics, and L2 Acquisition 1
Joaquim Camps & Caroline Wiltshire
A Class of "Lite" Adverbs in French 9
Anne Abeillé & Danièle Godard
Adjective Position and Interpretation in L2 French 27
Bruce Anderson
French Complex Inversion in the Light of a Minimalist Program 43
Cedric Boeckx
Optionality, Presupposition, and WH-in situ in French 57
Cedric Boeckx, Stateva & Arthur Stepanov
Word Order Shift and Natural L2 Acquisition in a Portuguese Creole 73
J. Clancy Clements
Unaccusativity and the Impersonal Construction of French 89
Sarah Cummins
Shifting the DP Parameter: A Study of Anglophone French L2ers 105
Randall Gess & Julia Herschensohn
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Constraint Demotion and Null-Subjects in Spanish L2 Acquisition 121
Larry LaFond, Rachel Hayes & Rakesh Bhatt
Temporal Location of Events and the Distribution of the Romance 137
Counterparts of since-Adverbials
Telmo Móia
PRO, Movement and Binding in Portuguese 153
Acrisio Pires
On Impersonal Reflexives in Romance and Slavic and Semantic 169
Variation
María Luisa Rivero
The Role of Syntactic Modifications on L2 Oral Comprehension 197
Nuria Sagarra
Syntactic Constraints on Access to Lexical Structure: The Case 211
of Ficar
Cristina Schmitt
A Comparative Semantics for the Subjunctive Mood in Spanish 227
Elisabeth Villalta
Index of Terms & Concepts 243
CONTRIBUTORS
Anne Abeillé Sarah Cummins
Université Paris 7 Université Laval
UFRL, case 7003 Département de langues,
2 place jussieu linguistique et traduction
75005 Paris Cité universitaire
France Québec G1K 7P4
[email protected] Canada
Sarah. [email protected]
Bruce Anderson
Indiana University Randall Gess
Dept. of French & Italian University of Utah
Ballantine Hall 642 Department of Linguistics
Bloomington, IN 47405 255 S. Central Campus Dr., Rm.2328
USA Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0492
brcander@indiana. edu USA
[email protected]
Rakesh Bhatt
University of Illinois Danièle Godard
Department of Linguistics Université Paris 7
4088 FLB, 707 S. Mathews UFRL, case 7003
Urbana, IL 61801 2 place jussieu
USA 75005 Paris
rbhatt @uiuc. edu France
[email protected]
Cedric Boeckx
University of Connecticut Rachel Hayes
Department of Linguistics, U-1145 University of Arizona
341 Mansfield Rd Department of Linguistics
Storrs, CT 06269-1145 Douglass Building 200-East
USA Tucson, AZ 85721
[email protected] USA
[email protected]
J. Clancy Clements
Indiana University Julia Herschensohn
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Washington
Ballantine Hall 844 Department of Linguistics
1020 E. Kirkwood Avenue Box 354340
Bloomington, IN 47405 Seattle, WA 98195-4340
USA USA
[email protected] [email protected]