Editors’ introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword and Acknowledgments vii
4. Editors’ introduction 1
5. Part I. Sound patterns
6. Sibilant voicing assimilation in peninsular Spanish as gestural blending 17
7. Phonology-morphology opacity in Harmonic Serialism 39
8. Morphologically conditioned intervocalic rhotacism in Algherese Catalan 63
9. Muta cum liquida in the light of Tertenia Sardinian metathesis and compensatory lengthening Latin tr > Old French Vrr 77
10. Schwa at the phonology/syntax interface 101
11. Weight effects across verbal domains 119
12. Part II. Syntax and semantics
13. On truth persistence 135
14. Pick some but not all alternatives! 155
15. Polarity fronting in Romanian and Sardinian 173
16. Degree quantification and scope in Puerto Rican Spanish 199
17. ‘Minimal link constraint’ violations 213
18. On subjunctives and islandhood 233
19. When control can’t be a fact 255
20. Part III. Historical aspects
21. Prevocalic velar advancement in Chilean Spanish and Proto-Romance 277
22. The role of the copula in the diachronic development of focus constructions in Portuguese 297
23. The French wh interrogative system 315
24. On the relation between functional architecture and patterns of change in Romance object clitic syntax 331
25. Part IV. Interactions across dialects and languages
26. Investigating the effects of perceptual salience and regional dialect on phonetic accommodation in Spanish 351
27. English questions, Spanish structure 379
28. French oral proficiency assessment 401
29. Name index 417
30. Subject index 423