Parenthetical null topic constructions in Romance

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Parenthetical null topic constructions in Romance 1
5. Syntax and semantics of split questions 15
6. Discontinuous wh -constituents in Brazilian Portuguese 29
7. Interpretive deficit? Evidence from the future tense in L2 Spanish 43
8. Subjects and wh -questions: Some new generalizations 57
9. Rhythmic constraints on the distribution of schwa in French 81
10. Investigating phrasing levels in French: Is there a difference between nuclear and prenuclear accents? 97
11. Expletives, number and language change 111
12. Performative verbs in Spanish monolingual and bilingual colonial court documents 127
13. Negative concord and double negation: The Romanian puzzle 141
14. Sub-extraction from subjects: A phase theory account 155
15. Inversion in wh -questions in child Romance and child English 169
16. Deviance in early child bilingualism 183
17. Topicalization in European and Brazilian Portuguese 205
18. A variation study of verb types and subject position: Verbs of light and sound emission 219
19. Macro events and 'aspect shift' in Spanish 233
20. Online processing of gender agreement in low proficient English-Spanish late bilinguals 247
21. Challenging the Person Case Constraint: Evidence from Romanian 261
22. Agree and existential constructions 275
23. Basic melodic contours in Majorcan Catalan: Shape and alignments of pitch movements in declaratives 289
24. Perceptual properties of palatalization in Romanian 303
25. A compositional analysis of manner-of-motion verbs in Italian 319
26. Index of terms and concepts 337