Ground/Focus:

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction and acknowledgment vii
4. Phonology and morphology
5. Pronominal clitics in Picard revisited 3
6. Spanish /s/: 21
7. Consonant intrusion in heterosyllabic cosonant-liquid clusters in Old Spanish and Old French: 39
8. A constraint interaction theory of Italian raddoppiamento 59
9. Pragmatics and sociolinguistics
10. Ground/Focus: 83
11. The subject clitics of European Conversational French: 99
12. A scalar propositional negative polarity item in Spanish 119
13. A pragmatic analysis of Imperfect Conditionals 133
14. Indirect objects in ditransitive constructions in Brazilian Portuguese 151
15. Pragmatic variation in Spanish: 167
16. Clitic simplification in a contact variety of Spanish: 181
17. The expression of topic in spoken Spanish: 195
18. An adaptive approach to noun gender in New York contact Spanish 209
19. Syntax
20. Properties of the double object construction in Spanish 233
21. Spanish perception verbs and sequence of tenses: 253
22. Defaults and competition in the acquisition of functional categories in Catalan and French 273
23. Constraints on the meanings of Bare Nouns 291
24. Null objects revisited 311
25. Auxiliary choice and pronominal verb constructions: 327
26. The lexical preverbal subject in a Romance Null Subject Language: 341
27. Intervention effects in the French wh-in-situ construction: 359
28. Index 381