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La négation dans les langues romanes
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 158.00Negation has always been and still is a central topic in typological studies and theoretical research. Its centrality shows itself in the fact that it is not restricted to a given linguistic field but compasses the whole domain of linguistic studies. Very often, works on negation are brought about in a one-sided perspective which excludes other points... more...
The Layered DP
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 173.00This book examines argumental un -NPs and du/des -NPs in French: nominals with the indefinite article and with the so-called ?partitive article? respectively. The main aim is to account for the different interpretations of these indefinites and to determine how interpretation and structure are related. This study thus concerns the syntax-semantics... more...
The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 165.00This book is a detailed study of French-English linguistic borrowing in Prince Edward Island, Canada which argues for the centrality of lexical innovation to grammatical change. Chapters 1–4 present the theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted along with the sociolinguistic history of Acadian French. Chapter 5 outlines the basic features... more...
New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 165.00This is the first of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote address delivered by Denis Bouchard on exaptation and linguistic explanation, as well as seventeen contributions by emerging and internationally recognized scholars of Spanish,... more...
New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 158.00This is the second of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote addresses delivered by Prof. Jacques Durand on the Phonology of Contemporary French Project and Prof. John Charles Smith on skeuomorphy and refunctionalization. It also... more...
Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 210.00This outstanding volume offers the first comprehensive collection of optimality-theoretic studies in Spanish phonology. Bringing together most of the best-known researchers in the field, it presents a state-of-the-art overview of research in Spanish phonology within the non-derivational framework of optimality theory. The book is structured around... more...
The Motivated Syntax of Arbitrary Signs
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009; US$ 158.00This detailed study challenges the claim that syntax is arbitrary and autonomous, as well as the assumption that Spanish clitic clusters constitute grammaticalized units. Diverse--apparently unrelated--restrictions on clitic clustering in both simplex VP's and Accusative cum Infinitive structures are shown to be cognitively motivated, given the meaning... more...
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009; US$ 165.00The volumes Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ?Going Romance? contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.This volume assembles a significant number of selected papers that were presented at the 21st edition... more...
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004; US$ 149.00The Going Romance conferences are a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. Selected papers are published in the Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory volumes. This is the fourth such volume, containing a selection of the papers that have been presented at the 2002 conference, which was... more...
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2005; US$ 188.00The annual Going Romance conference is the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are tested. Starting with the thirteenth conference held in 1999, volumes with selected papers of the conferences are published... more...









