Editor’s introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Foreword and acknowledgements ix
4. Editor’s introduction xi
5. Theory and practice in Romance linguistics today 1
6. Part I. Morphophonology
7. On the origins of /ɨ/ in Romanian 17
8. An acoustic investigation of nasal place neutralization in Spanish 33
9. An acoustic study of rhotics in onset clusters in La Rioja 49
10. Mid front vowel lowering before rhotics in Ibero-Romance 63
11. Plural formation in Galician 79
12. Part II. Syntax
13. On bare subject relative clauses in Old French 101
14. Directed motion in Medieval French 117
15. An ergative analysis of French valency alternations 137
16. Peninsular Spanish pre-nominal possessives in ellipsis contexts 155
17. On the nature of nominal features 177
18. On the nature of bare nouns in Afro-Bolivian Spanish 191
19. Negative imperatives in Portuguese and other Romance languages 205
20. Part III. Semantic interfaces
21. Another look at Italian generic sentences 223
22. The agreement of collective DPS in Romanian 239
23. A multidominance account for conjoined questions in Romanian 257
24. The Romanian verbal cluster and the theory of head movement 271
25. New challenges in the area of semantic dependencies 287
26. Polarity particles in English and Romanian 303
27. Index 329