Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword & acknowledgements ix
4. List of contributors xi
5. Editors’ introduction 1
6. Part I. Phonetics/Phonology
7. Correcting the record on Dominican [s]-hypercorrection 15
8. V-to-V assimilation in trisyllabic words in French 25
9. The production and provenance of palatal nasals in Portuguese and Spanish 43
10. Lenition and phonemic contrast in Majorcan Catalan 63
11. Alveolar laterals in Majorcan Spanish 81
12. Units of speech production in Italian 95
13. Pitch polarity in Palenquero 111
14. Word-minimality and sound change in Hispano-Romance 129
15. Multiple opacity in Eastern Regional French 153
16. Part II. Syntax
17. Syntactic variation in Colombian Spanish 169
18. Anaphoricity, logophoricity and intensification 187
19. More on the clitic combination puzzle 203
20. The Spanish dative alternation revisited 217
21. Romanian genderless pronouns and parasitic gaps 231
22. To agree or not to agree 249
23. Variation in subject expression in Western Romance 267
24. A phase-based analysis of Old French genitive constructions 285
25. V2 loss in Old French and Old Occitan 301
26. Part III. Morphology, and interfaces
27. The loss and survival of inflectional morphology 323
28. Allomorphy in pre-clitic imperatives in Formenteran Catalan 337
29. Preverbal vowels in wh-questions and declarative sentences in Northern Italian Piacentine dialects 353
30. Pitch accent, focus, and the interpretation of non- wh exclamatives in French 369
31. Detours along the perfect path 387
32. Grammaticalization of commencer/cominciare “to begin” in French and Italian 405
33. Index of subjects, terms and languages 423