Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Foreword v
3. Table of contents vii
4. The quirky case of participial clauses 1
5. Answering strategies: A view from acquisition 19
6. Transfer in periphrastic causatives in L2 English and L2 Spanish 39
7. Clitic omission, null objects or both in the acquisition of European Portuguese? 59
8. Metrical structure, tonal association and focus in French 73
9. On affixal scope and affix-root ordering in Italian 99
10. Scope economy in positive polarity: Extreme degree quantification 115
11. The acquisition of aspect in L2 Portuguese and Spanish. Exploring native / non-native performance differences 131
12. Mechanisms of scope resolution in child Italian 149
13. When scope meets modality: The scope of indefinites in subjunctive environments 165
14. Listen to the sound of salience: Multichannel syntax of Q particles 185
15. Instability and age effects at the lexicon-syntax interface 201
16. On the ambiguity of N-words in French 213
17. Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual children: The case of dislocation 229
18. Cartography of postverbal subjects in Spanish and Catalan 259
19. Mismatches between phonology and syntax in French DP acquisition 281
20. Pragmatic solutions for syntactic problems: Understanding some L2 syntactic errors in terms of discourse-pragmatic deficits 299
21. A poverty-of-the-stimulus argument for the innateness of the identification conditions on VP ellipsis 321
22. Index 335