On optionality in the Minimalist Program and Old French word order

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Genitives in Aromanian dialects 1
5. On optionality in the Minimalist Program and Old French word order 23
6. Interactions between pragmatic and syntactic knowledge in the first language acquisition of Spanish null and overt pronominals 35
7. The myth of equivalence 53
8. Some remarks on the Latin case system and its development in Romance 71
9. The Wh-Feature and the syntax of restrictive and non-restrictive relatives in French and English 127
10. A constraint-based approach to Spanish spirantization 143
11. A syntactic account of perfective and possessive verb selection in Romance languages 159
12. Two types of predicate modification 175
13. Alignment and sonority in the syllable structure of Late Latin and Gallo-Romance 193
14. Locative and temporal weak proforms 205
15. Optimalizing Iberian clitic sequences 227
16. The development of proclitics and enclitics in Middle French 249
17. Licensing and identification of null categories in Spanish non-native grammars 263
18. On the spelling distinction b vs. u/v and the status of spirantization in Old Spanish 283
19. PPs without Ps in spoken Rioplatense Spanish 317
20. The inversion construction in interrogatives in Spanish and Catalan 329
21. Scalar effects in Italian metaphony 351
22. Index of Authors 367
23. Index of Terms & Concepts 373
24. Index of Languages & Language Families 378