Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory. Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2007

The yearly 'Going Romance' meetings feature research in formal linguistics of Romance languages, mainly in the domains of morphology, syntax, and semantics, and, to a certain extent, phonology. This volume brings together a peer-reviewed selection of papers that were presented at the 21st meeting (Amsterdam, 2007) in the general session and the one-day workshop on the acquisition of word order and information structure. The result is quite representative of the spread of topics at the conference, but also of the variety of research carried out nowadays on Romance languages within theoretical linguistics. Over the last three decades, the contribution of Romance to the range of empirical phenomena that underlie the research agenda has grown exponentially. The interest for the differences within the established 'languages' of the same family has progressively drawn more and more attention to the dialects and spoken varieties of those languages as a window into microvariation. The range of languages (both standard and non-standard varieties) analyzed in this volume is significant: Catalan, French, Italian, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish