Manuals of Romance Linguistics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Manuals of Romance Linguistics V
3. Acknowledgments VII
4. Table of contents IX
5. Grammatical interfaces in Romance languages: An introduction 1
6. I. Sound and structure
7. 1. Surface sound and underlying structure: The phonetics-phonology interface 23
8. 2. Segmental phenomena and their interactions: Evidence for prosodic organization and the architecture of grammar 41
9. 3. Prosodic phonology and its interfaces 75
10. 4. Phonology and morphology in Optimality Theory 105
11. 5. Inflectional verb morphology 149
12. II. Structure and meaning
13. 6. Meaning of words and meaning of sentences 187
14. 7. Morphology and semantics: Aspect and modality 213
15. 8. (In)definiteness, specificity, and differential object marking 241
16. 9. Agreement restrictions and agreement oddities 267
17. 10. Auxiliary selection 295
18. III. Sound, structure, and meaning
19. 11. Subjects, null subjects, and expletives 329
20. 12. Object clitics 363
21. 13. Nominalizations 391
22. 14. Information structure, prosody, and word order 419
23. 15 VP and TP ellipsis: Sentential polarity and information structure 457
24. 16. Existential constructions 487
25. IV. The role of the interfaces in language acquisition and change
26. 17. Acquiring multilingual phonologies (2L1, L2 and L3): Are the difficulties in the interfaces? 519
27. 18. Interfaces with syntax in language acquisition 551
28. 19. The role of the interfaces in syntactic change 587
29. 20. Interfacing interfaces: Quechua and Spanish in the Andes 607
30. 21. Grammaticalization and pragmaticalization 635
31. 22. Changes at the syntax-discourse interface 659
32. Index 683