Romance Syntax, Semantics, and L2 Acquisition

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Table of contents vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. Romance Syntax, Semantics, and L2 Acquisition 1
6. A Class of "Lite" Adverbs in French 9
7. Adjective Position and Interpretation in L2 French 27
8. French Complex Inversion in the Light of a Minimalist Program 43
9. Optionality, Presupposition, and WH-in-situ in French 57
10. Word Order Shift and Natural L2 Acquisition in a Portuguese Creole 73
11. Unaccusativity and the Impersonal Construction of French 89
12. Shifting the DP Parameter: A study of Anglophone French L2ers 105
13. Constraint Demotion and Null-Subjects in Spanish L2 Acquisition 121
14. Temporal Location of Events and the Distribution of the Romance Counterparts of since-Adverbials 137
15. PRO, Movement and Binding in Portuguese 153
16. On Impersonal Reflexives in Romance and Slavic and Semantic Variation 169
17. The Role of Syntactic Modifications on L2 Oral Comprehension 197
18. Syntactic Constraints on Access to Lexical Structure: The case of ficar 211
19. A comparative Semantics for the Subjunctive Mood in Spanish 227
20. Index of Terms & Concepts 243