Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction ix
5. A Polarity-Sensitive Disjunction 1
6. Taking a Closer Look at Romance VN Compounds 13
7. Beyond Descriptivism 27
8. Do Subjects Have a Place in Spanish? 51
9. On the Conceptual Role of Number 67
10. The Diachronic Development of a French Indefinite Pronoun 83
11. A Syntactic Analysis of Italian Deverbal-Nouns 97
12. V-N Compounds In Italian 113
13. A Reinterpretation of Quirky Subjects and Related Phenomena in Spanish 127
14. Cognitive Constraints on Assertion Scope 143
15. Avant que - or Avant de -Clauses 155
16. Null Directional Prepositions in Romanian and Spanish 169
17. A Unified Account for the Additive and the Scalar Uses of Italian Neppure 187
18. Default Morphology in Second Language Spanish 201
19. Early Object Omission in Child French and English 213
20. Agreement Paradigms Across Moods and Tenses 229
21. Italian Volerci 247
22. Restructuring of Reverse Psychological Predicate 263
23. Subject Index 279