The Romance Inter-Views 3: Modularity

Alex Chabot; M. Rita Manzini; Andrew Nevins; Heather Newell; Ian Roberts; Shanti Ulfsbjorninn

doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.480

The Romance Inter-Views 3

Modularity

Authors

Alex Chabot
M. Rita Manzini
Andrew Nevins
Heather Newell
Ian Roberts
Shanti Ulfsbjorninn

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Abstract

The Romance Inter-Views are short, multiple Q&A pairs that address key issues, definitions and ideas regarding Romance linguistics or general linguistics from a Romance viewpoint. Prominent exponents of different approaches to the study of Romance linguistics are asked to answer some general questions. The answers are then assembled so that readers can get a comparative picture of what’s going on in the field.

This is the third Inter-view. The first Inter-view, on Syntax, can be found here. The second Inter-view, on Cartography, can be found here.

Keywords

modularity, Romance linguistics, syntax, morphology, PF, prosody, semantics

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