Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Null Expletives and Case: The View from Romance 1
5. On the Existence of Null Complementizers in Old French 19
6. On the Lack of Transparency Effects in French 37
7. On the Syllabification of Prevocalic /w/ in Judeo-Spanish 51
8. Word Order and Minimalism 69
9. The Status of Old French Clitics in the 12th Century 89
10. Towards a Unified Account of Positive and Negative Polarity: Evidence from Romanian 105
11. Correlativization and Degree Quantification in Spanish 121
12. Imperfect Variation and Class Marking in the Old Spanish Third Conjugation 143
13. Licensing Negative Fragments and the Interpretation of Comparison 157
14. Developing I-Language in L1 and L2 173
15. Crypto-Variation in Italian Velar Palatalisation 193
16. Antisymmetry and the Typology of Relative Clauses: Morphological Evidence from Romance 209
17. Romance Paths as Cognate Complements: A Lexical-Syntactic Account 227
18. Discriminating Pitch Accent Alignment in Spanish 243
19. Proscriptions…Gaps…and Something in Between: An Experimental Examination of Spanish Phonotactics 261
20. Romanian Palatalization: The Role of Place of Articulation in Perception 277
21. Putting in Order the Spanish DP 291
22. The Domain of Palatalization in Romanian 307
23. Rhotic Metathesis Asymmetries in Romance: Formalizing the Effects of Articulation and Perception on Sound Change 321
24. The Left Edge in the Spanish Clausal Structure 339
25. Index 359