Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Participial clauses in Bulgarian, Italian and Spanish 1
4. Edge effects and unstressed syllables in Spanish 13
5. The ambiguity of the Italian present perfect 25
6. The distribution of à and de in tough constructions in French 35
7. Prominence vs. Rhythm 47
8. On the configurational nature of adjectival modification 59
9. On the configurations and reference 73
10. The scope of universal quantifiers in Spanish interrogatives 87
11. The syntax and morphology of class marker suppression in Spanish 99
12. The prosodic environment of S-Weakening in Argentinian Spanish 123
13. Pefective auxiliaries, possession and existence in Romance 135
14. Gender agreement and suppletion in French 145
15. Two issues in null objects in Basque Spanish 159
16. Attributive and predicative adjective agreement in Germanic and Romance & pro identification 169
17. Clitic-doubled dative “subjects” in Spanish 183
18. The absence or presence of a declination effect on the descent of F0 peaks? Evidence from Mexican Spanish 197
19. Word order, predication and agreement in DPs in Spanish, Southern Quechua and southern andean bilingual Spanish 209
20. Clitic Omission and participle agreement in Italian child language 219
21. French syllable structure 229
22. Two types of unaccusatives 251
23. An expletive negation which is not so redundant 263
24. Exceptionality in optimality theory and final consonants in French 275
25. The nature of the subjunctive and the fromal grammar of oviation 293
26. Subjunctive of neagation and [Neg(ative)] complementizers 307
27. Index of authors 317
28. Index of terms & concepts 323
29. Index of languages & Language families 329