The Inchoative Interpretation of the Imperfecto

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Case, Agreement, and Expletives 1
5. Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Relations in Italian Verbal Inflection 17
6. The Role of the L1 in the Overgeneralization of Causatives in L2 English and L2 Spanish 45
7. The Inchoative Interpretation of the Imperfecto 65
8. Reinterpreting the CV Transition 83
9. Intervocalic Velar Nasals in Galician 103
10. Null Objects in French and English 121
11. Micro-Parametric Variation and Negative Concord 139
12. Contrast and Addition in Romance 159
13. On the Structure of Syncretism in Romanian Conjugation 177
14. Sluicing in Romanian 197
15. Romance Intonation From a Comparative and Diachronic Perspective 217
16. Romance SE as an Aspectual Element 239
17. Proto-Romance *[w] and the Velar Preterites 257
18. The Phonological Role of Paradigms 275
19. A Constraint-Based Analysis of Galician Geada 299
20. Peak Placement in Two Regional Varieties of Peruvian Spanish Intonation 321
21. On Intentional Causation in Italian 343
22. Inversion, Reconstruction, and the Structure of Relative Clauses 361
23. Infinitival Complement Constructions in Spanish 381
24. Index of Terms and Concepts 399