Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 95 Deborah L. Arteaga Editor Contributions of Romance Languages to Current Linguistic Theory Contributions of Romance Languages to Current Linguistic Theory Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory VOLUME 95 Managing Editors Marcel den Dikken, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Department of English Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Liliane Haegeman, University of Gent, Gent, Belgium Joan Maling, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA Maria Polinsky, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA Editorial Board Guglielmo Cinque, University of Venice, Italy Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA MichaelKenstowicz,MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology,Cambridge,MA,USA Hilda Koopman, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Howard Lasnik, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA Alec Marantz, New York University, NY, USA John J. 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ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbytheregisteredcompanySpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland This volume is dedicated to Julia Rogers Herschensohn for her significant contributions to the field of Romance Linguistics and for her generous support of students and fellow linguists throughout her career. Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Julia Herschensohn Part I Romance Syntax Classifier Phrase as Host for Stage-Level Spanish Adnominal Participial Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Karen Zagona and Heles Contreras The Syntax of Mirative Focus Fronting: Evidence from French . . . . . . 39 J.-Marc Authier and Liliane Haegeman Further Implications of French Devoir and Falloir for Theories of Control and Modality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Lisa A. Reed Part II Language Variation in Romance Conceptual and Empirical Arguments for a Language Feature: Evidence from Language Mixing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio On the Reduction of /ʒ/ in a Minority North American Variety of French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Randall Gess Why Lenition Interactions Are Typically Counter-Feeding . . . . . . . . . . 137 Haike Jacobs The French Jespersen’s Cycle and Negative Concord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Marie Labelle vii viii Contents Part III Diachronic Romance Studies The Variable Position of Initial Subordinate Clauses in Old French: Arguments Against a Semantic Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Bryan Donaldson Obviation and Old French Subjunctive Clauses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Deborah L. Arteaga On the Varying Fortunes of darla and darlo in Italian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Cinzia Russi Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 Julia Herschensohn Contributors DeborahL.Arteaga DepartmentofWorldLanguagesandCultures,Universityof Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, USA J.-Marc Authier Department of French and Francophone Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA Barbara E. Bullock Department of French and Italian, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA Heles Contreras Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Bryan Donaldson Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA Randall Gess Department of French, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada LilianeHaegeman DepartmentofLinguistics,GhentUniversity,Ghent,Belgium Julia Herschensohn Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Haike Jacobs Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Marie Labelle Department of Linguistics, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada LisaA.Reed DepartmentofFrenchandFrancophoneStudies,PennsylvaniaState University, University Park, PA, USA ix x Contributors CinziaRussi DepartmentofFrenchandItalian,TheUniversityofTexasatAustin, Austin, TX, USA Almeida Jacqueline Toribio Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA Karen Zagona Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA