Editors’ introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Editors’ introduction 1
5. Part 1. Language contact and bilingualism
6. Subject pronoun expression in bilinguals of two null subject languages 9
7. Where are hiatuses left? 23
8. Loanword adaptation in the French of Spanish-speaking immigrants in Montréal 39
9. Part 2. Phonology and interfaces
10. Morphology and phonology of word-final vowel deletion in spoken Tuscan Italian 57
11. Relativization, intonational phrases and rich left peripheries 73
12. Stress domain effects in French phonology and phonological development 89
13. Part 3. Syntax and morphophonology
14. Syntactic realizations of plural in Romance and Germanic nominalizations 107
15. The syntax of Spanish parecer and the status of little pro 125
16. Two types of (apparently) ditransitive light verb constructions 139
17. Modal ellipsis in French, Spanish and Italian 157
18. Optional prepositions in Brazilian Portuguese 171
19. An apparent ‘number case constraint’ in Romanian 185
20. Part 4. Semantics and morphology
21. Generic bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese 203
22. Aspect shift in stative verbs and their arguments 217
23. Part 5. Psycholinguistics
24. Experimenting with wh -movement in Spanish 233
25. How Spanish phonotactics informs psycholinuistic models of speech production 249
26. Index 265