Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface v
3. Table of contents ix
4. Section I. French
5. French reduplication limits the arbitrariness of the sign 3
6. Possessive à and de in informal Ontarian French 15
7. Prenominal past pasticiples in French 37
8. On agreement in person 51
9. Formal representations of the French present tense 77
10. Two aspectual structures illustrated by Pendant 93
11. Preposition — complementizers in French 105
12. Section II. Spanish
13. Multiple questions in English and Spanish 121
14. Relativization 135
15. Theories of phonological representation ans nasal consonants in Spanish 153
16. An autosegmental approach to syllabification in Spanish 169
17. Personal ‘a’, kinesis and individualition 195
18. Resumptive pronoun strategy in Spanish 217
19. A speech event analysis of tense and aspect in Spanish 229
20. Controlled pro 253
21. On linear order in Spanish 275
22. Phonological implications of the perception of -s and -n in Puerto Rico Spanish 287
23. Section III. Varia
24. Gemination in Italian 303
25. A formal basis for positing underlying segments in Occitan 323
26. Prosodic structure and the domain of assimilatory rules in old French 343
27. Subjunctive complement in Rumanian 355
28. A linguistic environment for comparative Romance syntax 373
29. Word-final vowels in Romance 447
30. Reflections on old French Morpho(phono)logy 461
31. Saussure’s French connection 475
32. The mysteries of the Orient 501
33. Negative polarity and the Romance subjunctive 517
34. Implications of neutralization processes in Portuguese for phonological abstactness 531
35. Problems in the analysis of Portuguese participles in -do 549
36. Variable deletion of -s in Latin 565
37. Paradigm leveling in Latin and old Franch 579
38. Index of names 601
39. Index of languages 605
40. Subject index 607