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This volume contains 23 papers selected from those presented at the 22nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. The papers address issues in phonology, morphology, syntax/semantics from contemporary theoretical perspectives. In addition, in keeping with the symposium's US-Mexico location and commemoration of the twin quincentenaries of Columbus' first voyage and the publication of Nebrija's grammar, several papers focus on the history of linguistic theory, language contact, variation, and change.

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This book presents an enlightening collection of papers contributing to theoretical discussions across many topics within the study of Romance Languages and Linguistics. The work originates from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held in 1999 at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, although only a small subpart of the proceedings papers are included in this volume. The selected papers have been reworked for the current publication.

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This investigation constitutes a quantitative variationist approach toward Spanish in contact with Catalan in Barcelona, Spain. It seeks to empirically measure concrete usage patterns of two phonetic variants, [B;] and [z], in the Spanish of Catalan-Spanish bilinguals, as well as establish the extent to which both variants are conditioned by linguistic factors and Catalan dominance. The careful Spanish speech of 20 Barcelonan females (ages 18-27) was elicited through a word-reading task. Goldvarb binomial logistic regression analyses revealed that sensitivity to linguistic factors varied accord

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This book offers a comparative perspective on the structural and interpretive properties of root-clause complementizers in Ibero-Romance. The driving question the author seeks to answer is where the boundaries between syntax and pragmatics lie in these languages. Contrary to most previous work on these phenomena, the author argues in favor of a relatively strict distribution of labor between the two components of grammar. The first part of the book is devoted to root complementizers with a reportative interpretation. The second part deals with root complementizers and commitment attribution. Finally, the last part presents the results of empirical studies on the topic.

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The Romance languages are the Indo-European languages developed from Latin. The term "Romance Languages" also refers to the academic discipline, which studies the Romance languages and literature from the areas where the Romance languages are spoken. This discipline has a long tradition in Sweden. Swedish academic education and research in the Romance languages forms the subject of this anthology, whose contributions are written by 22 different researchers active in the field. The anthology examines the historical development of the study of the Romance languages in Sweden, as well as important trends in current education and research. The question of what characterizes the Romance languages as an academic discipline in Sweden today is thoroughly discussed in several of the contributions. The book brings a metadisciplinary perspective in the sense that it is the discipline itself, Romance languages - or some aspect of it - that constitutes the object of study. It is aimed at anyone with an interest in university and scholarly history and the development and position of academic language subjects in a Swedish university context. In addition, several of the contributions are of relevance for readers with an interest in language didactics and for pedagogical research on language teaching in higher education. The hope is that the reflections and investigations gathered in this anthology will serve as a starting point for the future development of the study of the Romance languages in Sweden. *** De romanska språken är de indoeuropeiska språk som utvecklats från latinet. Beteckningen "romanska språk" syftar även på den akademiska disciplin i vilken de romanska språken och litteraturen från de romanska språkområdena studeras. Denna disciplin, också kallad "romanistik", har en lång tradition i Sverige. Den akademiska utbildningen och forskningen i romanska språk i Sverige bildar ämnet för denna antologi, vars bidrag är skrivna av 22 olika forskare verksamma inom fältet. I antologin undersöks den svenska romanistikens historiska utveckling samt bärande tendenser i dagens utbildning och forskning. Frågan om vad som idag kännetecknar romanska språk som akademisk disciplin i Sverige diskuteras grundligt i flera av bidragen. Boken anlägger ett metadisciplinärt perspektiv i den meningen att det är själva disciplinen romanska språk - eller någon aspekt av denna - som utgör studieobjektet. Den vänder sig till alla med intresse för universitets- och lärdomshistoria och för de akademiska språkämnenas utveckling och ställning i ett svenskt högskolesammanhang. Flera av bidragen är därutöver av relevans för läsare med intresse för språkdidaktiska spörsmål och för pedagogisk forskning rörande språkundervisning inom högre utbildning. Förhoppningen är att de reflexioner och undersökningar som samlas i denna antologi ska kunna tjäna som en utgångspunkt för romanistikens utveckling i Sverige i framtiden.

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