Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Introduction v
3. Table of contents vii
4. An Integrated Approach to Variation in OT 1
5. On Facts in the Syntax and Semantics of Italian 15
6. On the Status of Stems in Morphological Theory 37
7. Italian [VN] Compound Nouns 63
8. The Development of Liquids from Latin to Campidanian Sardinian 81
9. Clitic Placement and the Position of Subjects in the History of European Portuguese 97
10. Subject Inversion in Spanish Relatice Clauses 115
11. Attrition and Interpretable Features 129
12. Acceleration in Bilingual First Language Acquisition 143
13. ‘Focus VS’ 161
14. Aspectual Quantization and [±] Accusative Case Checking in Romance 177
15. Strata, Yes; Structure Preservation, No. Evidence from Spanish 197
16. Durational Asymmetries and the Theory of Quantity 219
17. What Lenition and Fortition Tell us about Gallo-Romance Muta cum Liquida 235
18. The Lazy Frenchman’s Approach to the Subjunctive 269
19. Vowel Centralization in Romanian Verbs of Slavic Origin 311
20. On the Rumanian kt > pt Shift 327
21. Evidence for a Cue-based Theory of Language Change and Language Acquisition 343
22. Subject Index 361
23. Author Index 365