On certain differences between Haitian and French predicative constructions

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editorial vii
4. Phonology
5. On the status of sequences of liquids in romance 1
6. Glide fromation, prefixation, and the phonological word in French 13
7. Coda wieght and vowel length in Quebec French 25
8. On deletion rules in Catalan 37
9. The representation of French final consonants and related issues 53
10. Language variation and contact
11. On old French genitive constructions 79
12. French presentational structures 91
13. The evolution of causative constructions in Spanish and Portuguese 105
14. Is there an Indian Spanish? 123
15. From Lebrixa’s grammaar to Cartesian language theory 135
16. The historical development of Rumanian /i/ 167
17. Feature-checking and the syntax of language contact 177
18. Dialectal variation in an argumentation/non-argumental asymmetry in Spanish 187
19. Syntax and semantics
20. Primitives, metaphor and grammar 205
21. On certain differences between Haitian and French predicative constructions 237
22. Distinguishing copular and aspectual auxiliaries 257
23. The VP-internal subject hypothesis and Spanish senyence structure 275
24. The word order of constructions with a verb, a subject, and adirect object in spoken Spanish 291
25. Verb incorporation and the HMC in XVIth-century Spanish 307
26. Non-thematic datives in Spanish 319
27. Restricting relativized minimality 333
28. On the nature of SPEC/IP and its relevance for scope asymmetries in Spanish and English 355
29. The verbal component in Italian compounds 367