Mapping out the Left Periphery of the Clause

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Introduction v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Spanish De -Clauses Are Not Always in the Right Mood 1
5. Mood and Focus 17
6. Null vs Overt Spec, TP in European Portuguese 31
7. Determiner Architecture and Phrasal Movement in French Lexifier Creoles 49
8. On the Relation between Focus, Prosody and Word Order in Romanian 75
9. Economy of Structure 93
10. Identificational Focus vs Contrastive Focus 113
11. Null Objects and VP Ellipsis in European and Brazilian Portuguese 131
12. From Non-Identity to Plurality 155
13. On the Non-Unitariness of NP Subject Inversion 177
14. Past Participle Agreement with Pronominal Clitics and the Auxiliary Verbs in Italian and French 193
15. Deficient Pronouns and Linguistic Change in Portuguese and Spanish 213
16. Nominalizations of French Psychological Verbs 231
17. Notes on Vocative Case 247
18. Mapping out the Left Periphery of the Clause 263
19. The Left Periphery in Child French 279
20. Plural Indefinite DPs as Plural-Polarity Items 295
21. On the Status of the Partitive Determiner in Italian 315
22. Determiners and Weakly Discretised Domains 331
23. Index of languages and dialects 347
24. Subject Index 349