Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Table of contents vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics 1
6. Object Bare Plurals in Spanish and the Semantics of Personal a 21
7. Case Feature Checking and its Consequences 39
8. Assibilation in Ecuadorian Spanish 57
9. How Similar are Conjuncts? 73
10. Deriving Heavy NP-Shift in French 89
11. The Presuppositionality Condition and Spanish Clitic-Doubled Objects 107
12. Positional Faithfulness versus Cue Preservation 121
13. Passives and Arbitrary Plural Subjects in Spanish 135
14. Spanish Indefinites and Type-Driven Interpretation 151
15. Minimalist Access to UG in L2 French 167
16. Conflictual Agreement in Romance Nominals 179
17. Resyllabification Precedes all Segmental Rules 197
18. Objects and the Structure of Imperatives 211
19. Null Objects and D 0 Features in Contact Spanish 227
20. Lexical Conservatism in French Adjectival Liaison 243
21. Optional Schwa Deletion 271
22. Geminates and Clusters in Italian and Piedmontese 289
23. Structural Case and Tense Construal 305
24. Index of Terms & Concepts 329