Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Introduction v
3. Table of contents vii
4. On the nature of wh-phrases – word order and wh-in-situ. Evidence from Portuguese, French, Hungarian and Tetum 1
5. Negative concord and the distribution of quantifiers 39
6. Clause structure, subject positions and verb movement. About the position of sempre in European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese 63
7. On the multiple expression of negation in Romance 87
8. Property denoting objects in idiomatic constructions 117
9. On the relation of priority between causative and inchoative constructions 143
10. Spanish exclamatives and the interpretation of the left periphery 167
11. Unaccusative inversion in French 195
12. Locative and locatum verbs revisited. Evidence from Romance 223
13. Negative concord and the minimalist approach 245
14. Free relatives as defective wh-elements. Evidence from the North-Western Italian dialects 281
15. Temporal existential constructions in Romance 307
16. French ne in non-verbal contexts 335
17. French negative sentences with avant (‘before’)-phrases and jusqu’à (‘until’)-phrases 355
18. Decomposing the neg-criterion 383