Exploring Interfaces

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Monica Cabrera (Loyola Marymount University, California) Jose Camacho (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

Exploring Interfaces

Monica Cabrera (Loyola Marymount University, California), Jose Camacho (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

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Cambridge University Press
09 June 2022

Language acquisition; Semantics; Grammar, syntax

Models of theoretical linguistics now emphasize the meeting points, or interfaces, between different aspects of our language capacity. Syntactic operations include structure-building, checking long-distance relationships between units, and connecting alternative word orders. This volume presents a collection of original studies that explore the mapping between these operations and other language-related areas such as word meanings, discourse contexts, the construction of meaning for larger units, and the alternative expressions of word order. It differs from previous traditional research on interfaces by bringing together studies and analyses from a range of languages, using monolingual varieties that include second language phenomena. Case studies of different types of interfaces, as well as studies based on lesser known sets of linguistic data, provide important examples that propose a new view of the connections between syntactic processes and other areas of grammar.

Edited by: Monica Cabrera (Loyola Marymount University California), Jose Camacho (Rutgers University, New Jersey)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 227mm, Width: 151mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 470g
ISBN: 9781108458115
ISBN 10: 1108458114
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 09 June 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: the road to interfaces Monica Cabrera and Jose Camacho; Part I. Syntax-Lexicon Interface: 1. The L2 acquisition of English anticausative structures by L1 Spanish speakers Monica Cabrera; 2. Dispositional evaluative adjectives: lexical alternations, behaviors and sideward movement Violeta Demonte; 3. The role of P in unaccusative constructions Roberto Mayoral Hernandez; 4. Degree achievements of color Mythili Menon and Roumyana Pancheva; Part II. Syntax-Semantics Interface: 5. Negative idioms Jose Camacho; 6. Scope, syntax and prosody in Russian as a second or heritage language Tania Ionin and Tatiana Luchkina; 7. On the syntax of pronominal clitics: a view from Greek Patricia Schneider-Zioga; Part III. Linearization: 8. Merge, restructuring and clitic climbing in Spanish Pascual Jose Masullo; 9. Linearization when multiple orderings are possible: adjective ordering restrictions and focus Katy McKinney-Bock; 10. Dialectal variation in VOS word order in Spanish Liliana Sanchez and Pablo Zdrojewski.

Monica Cabrera is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Loyola Marymount University. She is author of The L2 Acquisition of English and Spanish Causative Structures: A Bidirectional Study (2008) and Overgeneralized Lexical Causatives in Adult English and Spanish L2 Acquisition (2015), as well as several articles in international collections and journals. Jose Camacho is a Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Rutgers University. He is author of three books including Null Subjects (Cambridge, 2013) and Introduccion a la sintaxis del Espanol (Cambridge, 2018) and over forty articles in international collections and journals.