Segmental and Featural Strategies to Avoid Adjacent Sibilant Segments in Balearic Catalan. An Optimality Account

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Introduction v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Tense, Quantification and Clause Structure in EP and BP. Evidence from a Comparative Study on Sempre 1
5. Early ‘Pragmatic’ Competence and its Implications regarding the Null Subject Phenomenon 17
6. On the Impact of French Subject Clitics on the Information Structure of the Sentence 33
7. A Restricted View of Head Movement 47
8. The Effects of Phonological Cues on the Syntax of Focus Constructions in Spanish 69
9. Optional Infinitives or Silent Auxes? New Evidence from Romance 83
10. Dislocation, Clitic Resumption and Minmality. A Comparative Analysis of Left and Right Topic Constructions in Italian 99
11. Focus on Negative Concord 119
12. Romance and ‘Something Else’ 141
13. Learnability Order in the French Pronominal System 163
14. Nominal Ellipsis and Morphological Structure in Spanish 183
15. The Development of Inalienable Possession in English and Spanish 199
16. Segmental and Featural Strategies to Avoid Adjacent Sibilant Segments in Balearic Catalan. An Optimality Account 217
17. -Tu in Quebec French as a (Super)positive Marker 235
18. Feature Checking and Object Clitic Omission in Child Catalan and Spanish 253
19. Index of languages and dialects 269
20. Subject Index 271