Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. The acquisition of verbal passives by Portuguese-speaking children 9
5. Plus in the French negative system 29
6. An experimental approach to parallelism in ellipsis 49
7. On focal and wh -projections, indirect wh -questions, and quantificational chains 73
8. Is there a dative alternation in Romanian? 91
9. The interpretation of null subjects in Romanian 111
10. Verum focus and Romanian polar questions 135
11. The downward grammaticalisation of irrealis subordinators in Romanian, Salentino and southern Calabrese 157
12. Differential object marking 171
13. The effects of language ecology on syntactic structure 193
14. The syntactic distribution of raddoppiamento fonosinttatico in Cosentino 205
15. The causative-inchoative alternation (as we know it) might fall short 239
16. On wh -extraction in de + que constructions in Spanish 263
17. On another apparent violation of the subject-island constraint in French 277
18. Moving towards an event 297
19. Cyclicity without containment in Romanian perfects 311
20. Dative clitics in Romanian ditransitives 335
21. Syntactic vs pragmatic passive 357
22. Index 373