Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Seemingly Ergative and Ergatively Seeming 1
5. On the Weight of Light Predicates 23
6. On the Interpretation of Focus Features 39
7. “Dequeísmo” in Spanish and the Structure and Features of CP 49
8. Evaluative Suffixation in Spanish and the Syntax of Derivational Processes 71
9. The Lower Operator Position with Parasitic Gaps 85
10. NP Movement and Adjective Position in the DP Phases 107
11. Reflections on A Phonological Grammar of Spanish 133
12. The Long Fall: An intonational melody of Argentinian Spanish 147
13. On the Position of Preposed PPs in English and Spanish 161
14. The Morphologization and Grammaticalization of French Liaison 175
15. Determining the Acquisition of Determiners: On the innateness of functional categories 189
16. Sonority as a Primitive Phonological Feature: Evidence from Spanish complex onset phonotactics 203
17. Weak Subject Pronouns in Caribbean Spanish and XP Pied-Piping 223
18. The Realization of Number in Italian and Spanish 239
19. Discourse Topic Constraints on Left Dislocated Subjects and CLLD Structures 255
20. The Puzzle of Restrictive Relative Clauses with Conjoined DP Antecedents 267
21. Definite Determiners in French and Spanish: Features and extraction 279
22. Subject Index 293
23. Name Index 297