A postfunctionalist perspective on French psych unaccusatives

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Introduction xi
5. I. Keynote addresses
6. The centers of gravity in nineteenth-century Romance linguistics 3
7. On the permeability of grammars 19
8. Opérateurs argumentatifs et analyse de textes 45
9. II. Phonology and morphology
10. Palatalization processes in the history of Romance languages 65
11. The PA effect of coronals on vowels in Romance 85
12. Moriac theory and French liaison 97
13. French rhythm and French segments 113
14. Sociophonological aspects of montreal French liaison 127
15. Closed communities and nasal enhancement in northern Italy 139
16. The phonology of enclisis and preclisis in Gallo-Romance and old French 149
17. On the evolution of Latin verbal inflection into Romance 165
18. III. Syntax, discourse and semantics
19. More evidence for verbal agreement-marking in colloquial French 177
20. Spec of IP and Spec of CP in Spanish Wh-questions 199
21. Full NPs in spoken Spanish 211
22. The distribution of pronouns and Null elements in object position in Brazilian Portuguese 225
23. A postfunctionalist perspective on French psych unaccusatives 237
24. A new look at Parasitis Gaps 249
25. From old French to modern French 259
26. On the semantic structure of the French subjunctive 271
27. Multiple clitic linearization principles 281
28. On the extraction from NPs in Spanish 303
29. Negative fronting in Romance 315
30. Catalan as VOS 335
31. The introduction of new referents in French and Spanish discourse 351
32. The role of syntax in tracing the development of Old Spanish 363
33. Complex monolingualism in Early Romance 377
34. Index of names 389
35. Index of subjects 395