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East and West of the Pentacrest : Linguistic Studies in Honor of Paula Kempchinsky.

This book is a collection of contemporary essays and squibs exploring the mental representation of Spanish and other languages in the Romance family.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gupton, Timothy.
Other Authors: Gielau, Elizabeth.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • East and West of The Pentacrest
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • I. Crosslinguistic explorations at the interfaces
  • II. Innovative approaches to clitics and noun phrases in Romance
  • References
  • Part I. Crosslinguistic explorations at the interfaces
  • Chapter 1. Interpretation of focus in Haitian Creole se-clefts
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
  • 2.1 What is focus?
  • 2.2 French and Haitian Creole clefts
  • 2.3 The syntax of se-clefts
  • 2.4 Past accounts of the interpretation of (se-)clefts
  • 2.5 Exhaustivity
  • 3. Research questions and hypotheses
  • 4. Empirical data
  • 4.1 Contrast and intensity in predicate clefts
  • 4.2 Exhaustivity inference
  • 5. Discussion and conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 2. Aligning syntax and prosody in Galician: Against a prosodic isomorphism account
  • 1. Background
  • 2. Review of the literature
  • 3. Methodology
  • 4. Results
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Conclusions and further directions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Appendix I. Stimuli list
  • Appendix II. Pitch measurements by syllable for each context type
  • Chapter 3. Why does D-linking reduce the need for inversion in Spanish wh-questions?
  • 1. The D-linking phenomenon
  • 2. Towards a solution
  • 3. Implications for the analysis of inversion
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 4. Negation and mood in epistemic contexts
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Farkas (2003)
  • 3. Cross-linguistic variation in negated epistemic contexts
  • 4. The interpretation of negation in epistemic contexts
  • 5. Emotive verbs and metalinguistic negation
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Dedication
  • References
  • Chapter 5. The complicated timeline of Spanish: Implications for lexical processing
  • Preamble
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Irregularities abound
  • 2.1 Cultismos.
  • 2.2 Words borrowed from other languages
  • 3. Regularities arise
  • 4. Implications
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
  • Part II. Innovative approaches to clitics and noun phrases in Romance
  • Chapter 6. Me gohtaba ehta linguaji barranquenha: Variable object clitics in Barranquenho
  • Dedication
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Introduction to Barranquenho
  • 2.1 Barranquenho as a mixed language
  • 2.2 The evolutionary model of language change
  • 3. POCs in Spanish, European Portuguese and Barranquenho
  • 4. Research questions and hypotheses
  • 5. Method
  • 5.1 Analysis
  • 5.2 Exclusions
  • 6. Results and discussion
  • 6.1 Placement
  • 6.2 Doubling
  • 7. General discussion
  • 8. Limitations and future research
  • 9. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Appendix. Distribution of individual clitic forms
  • Chapter 7. Spanish impersonal se in control infinitivals and the ungrammaticality of se se sequences
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Assumptions regarding Impse
  • 2.1 Impse spells out T[D]
  • 2.2 Projected prose
  • 3. The non-referentiality of prose
  • 3.1 Prose does not introduce a discourse referent
  • 4. Impse in infinitives
  • 5. The features of se
  • 5.1 The phi-features of prose
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 8. Case assignment in Spanish nominalizations: A self-paced reading investigation
  • Dedication
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Internal structure of the Spanish Determiner Phrase
  • 3. Data and nominalization paradigms
  • 4. Additional nominal properties
  • 5. Additional verbal properties
  • 5.1 Agents/subjects
  • 5.2 Themes/objects
  • 5.3 Adverbs, tense, and outer/inner aspect
  • 6. Alexiadou et al. (2011)
  • 7. Methodology and predictions
  • 7.1 Participants
  • 7.2 Materials
  • 8. Results
  • 8.1 Data treatment and analysis
  • 8.2 Results: Analysis of reading times
  • 9. Discussion and conclusions
  • References.
  • Chapter 9. Dual competence in dual language learners: Gradience and variability of object clitics in Spanish heritage language learners
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Direct object clitics
  • 2.1 Clitic distribution
  • 2.2 Theoretical accounts of clitic acquisition and optionality
  • 3. The present study
  • 3.1 Rationale and research hypotheses for the current study
  • 3.2 Participants
  • 3.3 Data collection
  • 4. Data, analysis and discussion
  • 4.1 Clitic production data (simple and complex predicates)
  • 4.2 Data interpretation and discussion
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Index.

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