The quality of the discussions is generally extremely good, on a high level with insightful analyses and/or problems sketched out [...]

- Kleanthes Grohmann, University of Cyprus, Nicosia , on Linguist List Vol. 15-653, February 2004.,

This volume offers discussions of a wide range of languages and (non-standard) varieties, and is a valuable contribution for anyone with an interest in the syntax of Romance languages, or in recent developments in (minimalist) syntax.

- Julien Eychenne, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, France, in French Language Studies, Vol 17 (2007),

The volumes Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory published in the series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001 is the third such volume. It presents a selection of the papers that have been presented at the occasion of Going Romance 2001 (XV) — which was held at the University of Amsterdam on December 6-8, 2001. The three-day program included a workshop on Determiners. The volume contains articles on specifics of one or more Romance languages or varieties: the architecture of the Determiner Phrase and properties of determiners, the left periphery of the sentence and clause structure, null elements and their interpretation, clitics, and other interesting phenomena in the Romance languages.
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This is the third proceedings volume containing a selection of papers that have been presented at the "Going Romance 2001 (XV)" conference held at the University of Amsterdam. The volume contains articles on one or more Romance languages or varieties.
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1. Introduction; 2. Spanish De -Clauses Are Not Always in the Right Mood (by Alonso-Ovalle, Luis); 3. Mood and Focus (by Borgonovo, Claudia); 4. Null vs Overt Spec, TP in European Portuguese (by Costa, Joao); 5. Determiner Architecture and Phrasal Movement in French Lexifier Creoles (by Deprez, Viviane); 6. On the Relation between Focus, Prosody and Word Order in Romanian (by Gobbel, Edward); 7. Economy of Structure: The Case of Subject Clitics in Piedmontese (by Goria, Cecilia); 8. Identificational Focus vs Contrastive Focus: A Syntactic Distinction (by Isac, Daniela); 9. Null Objects and VP Ellipsis in European and Brazilian Portuguese (by Kato, Mary Aizawa); 10. From Non-Identity to Plurality: French Different as an Adjective and as a Determiner (by Laca, Brenda); 11. On the Non-Unitariness of NP Subject Inversion: A Comparison of French NP Subject Inversion in Interrogatives and Temporal Subordinates (by Lahousse, Karen); 12. Past Participle Agreement with Pronominal Clitics and the Auxiliary Verbs in Italian and French (by Law, Paul); 13. Deficient Pronouns and Linguistic Change in Portuguese and Spanish (by Martins, Ana Maria); 14. Nominalizations of French Psychological Verbs: Syntactic Complements and Semantic Participants (by Meinschaefer, Judith); 15. Notes on Vocative Case: A Case Study in Clause Structure (by Moro, Andrea); 16. Mapping out the Left Periphery of the Clause: Evidence from North Western Italian Varieties (by Paoli, Sandra); 17. The Left Periphery in Child French: Evidence for a Simply-Split CP (by Roehrs, Dorian); 18. Plural Indefinite DPs as Plural-Polarity Items (by Spector, Benjamin); 19. On the Status of the Partitive Determiner in Italian (by Storto, Gianluca); 20. Determiners and Weakly Discretised Domains (by Tovena, Lucia M.); 21. Index of languages and dialects; 22. Subject Index
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9789027247575
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2003-09-29
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John Benjamins Publishing Co
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