On Borrowing as a Mechanism of Syntactic Change

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface v
3. Table of contents vii
4. On Null Objects in Old French 1
5. Spanish Codas and Overapplication 13
6. Verb Movement and its Effects on Determinerless Plural Subjects 25
7. Expletive Auxiliaries 41
8. On the Structure of Declarative Clauses 53
9. N/A of a N DP's 67
10. Thetic and Categorical, Attributive and Referential 81
11. Negation and Independent Morphological Development 97
12. Enclitic -n in Spanish 111
13. Je veux que parte Paul 129
14. Mood Phrase, Case Checking and Obviation 143
15. Syllable Structure and Sonority Sequencing 155
16. Condition on Feature Specification and Negative Lexicalization in Spanish 171
17. Vestigial Trochees in Oil Dialects 183
18. Definite/Zero Alternations in Portuguese 197
19. On Object-Clitic Placement in Italian Child Language 213
20. On Borrowing as a Mechanism of Syntactic Change 225
21. Subject Positions and the Roles of CP 247
22. Licensing DP-Internal Predication 271
23. From Being to Having 283
24. Pragmatic Transfer from Less Developed to More Developed Systems 307
25. Object Shift in Old French 319
26. Author index 333
27. Language index 337
28. Subject index 340