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Intro; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; Abstract; 1 Romance Syntax; 2 Language Variation in Romance; 3 Diachronic Romance Studies; References; Romance Syntax; 2 Classifier Phrase as Host for Stage-Level Spanish Adnominal Participial Adjectives; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Background: Adjective Phrases, Nominal Structure and Participial Adjectives; 2.1 Non-uniformity of Pre-nominal Versus Post-nominal Modifiers; 2.2 Structure of Adjective Phrases with Stage-Level Readings; 2.3 Structure of Participial Adjectives; 2.4 Summary; 3 NP-Internal Versus NP-External Modification
3.1 Stage-Level Readings as NP-External Modifiers3.2 Extending the Approach to Spanish; 4 Adjective Order and Classifiers in the Projections of Nominals; 4.1 Specifier of CLP as Host for Participial Adjectives; 4.2 CL Phrase in Spanish; 5 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 3 The Syntax of Mirative Focus Fronting: Evidence from French; Abstract; 1 Introduction: Focus Movement and FocP; 2 The Syntax of MFoc Fronting in French; 2.1 Topic Fronting in French; 2.2 Topic Fronting and MFoc Fronting Instantiate Different Derivations; 2.3 The Status of que in French MFoc Fronting Constructions
2.4 MFoc Fronting and Clefting3 The Interpretation of French MFoc Fronting; 3.1 Information Structure; 3.2 Semantics; 4 Conclusion and Questions for Future Research; References; 4 Further Implications of French Devoir and Falloir for Theories of Control and Modality; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Thematic Constraints on Expletive Il doit/faut + Infinitive Constructions; 3 In Favor of a Caseless, Phi-Featureless Approach to PRO; 4 On the Implications of Falloir and Devoir for Pragmatic Approaches to Modal Flavor; 5 Conclusion; References; Language Variation in Romance
5 Conceptual and Empirical Arguments for a Language Feature: Evidence from Language MixingAbstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Reflections on Language Mixing; 3 Making the Case for a Formal Language Feature; 4 Language Identification in Natural Language Processing; 5 Patterns of Language Mixing as Identified by Language Tags; 5.1 The Data; 5.2 Quantitative Comparisons Between the Corpora; 6 Quantitative Analysis of Code-Switching in the DP; 6.1 Data Preprocessing; 6.2 Results; 6.3 Discussion; 7 Conclusions; References; 6 On the Reduction of /ʒ/ in a Minority North American Variety of French; Abstract
1 Introduction2 Geographic and Social Distribution of Debuccalized /ʒ/; 3 Speaker Profile and Methodology; 3.1 Speaker Profile; 3.2 Methodology; 4 Acoustic Properties of Full and Reduced Forms; 4.1 An Important Note on Voicing; 4.2 Full and Reduced Forms in Intervocalic, Word-Internal Position; 4.3 Full and Reduced Forms in Intervocalic, Word-Initial Position; 4.4 Full and Reduced Forms in Phrase-Initial, Pre-vocalic Position; 4.5 Reduced Form in Phrase-Initial, Pre-sonorant Position; 4.6 Full and Reduced Forms in Phrase-Initial, Pre-obstruent Position
3.1 Stage-Level Readings as NP-External Modifiers3.2 Extending the Approach to Spanish; 4 Adjective Order and Classifiers in the Projections of Nominals; 4.1 Specifier of CLP as Host for Participial Adjectives; 4.2 CL Phrase in Spanish; 5 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 3 The Syntax of Mirative Focus Fronting: Evidence from French; Abstract; 1 Introduction: Focus Movement and FocP; 2 The Syntax of MFoc Fronting in French; 2.1 Topic Fronting in French; 2.2 Topic Fronting and MFoc Fronting Instantiate Different Derivations; 2.3 The Status of que in French MFoc Fronting Constructions
2.4 MFoc Fronting and Clefting3 The Interpretation of French MFoc Fronting; 3.1 Information Structure; 3.2 Semantics; 4 Conclusion and Questions for Future Research; References; 4 Further Implications of French Devoir and Falloir for Theories of Control and Modality; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Thematic Constraints on Expletive Il doit/faut + Infinitive Constructions; 3 In Favor of a Caseless, Phi-Featureless Approach to PRO; 4 On the Implications of Falloir and Devoir for Pragmatic Approaches to Modal Flavor; 5 Conclusion; References; Language Variation in Romance
5 Conceptual and Empirical Arguments for a Language Feature: Evidence from Language MixingAbstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Reflections on Language Mixing; 3 Making the Case for a Formal Language Feature; 4 Language Identification in Natural Language Processing; 5 Patterns of Language Mixing as Identified by Language Tags; 5.1 The Data; 5.2 Quantitative Comparisons Between the Corpora; 6 Quantitative Analysis of Code-Switching in the DP; 6.1 Data Preprocessing; 6.2 Results; 6.3 Discussion; 7 Conclusions; References; 6 On the Reduction of /ʒ/ in a Minority North American Variety of French; Abstract
1 Introduction2 Geographic and Social Distribution of Debuccalized /ʒ/; 3 Speaker Profile and Methodology; 3.1 Speaker Profile; 3.2 Methodology; 4 Acoustic Properties of Full and Reduced Forms; 4.1 An Important Note on Voicing; 4.2 Full and Reduced Forms in Intervocalic, Word-Internal Position; 4.3 Full and Reduced Forms in Intervocalic, Word-Initial Position; 4.4 Full and Reduced Forms in Phrase-Initial, Pre-vocalic Position; 4.5 Reduced Form in Phrase-Initial, Pre-sonorant Position; 4.6 Full and Reduced Forms in Phrase-Initial, Pre-obstruent Position