Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Verb second effects in Medieval French 1
5. Null objects and the theory of empty categories 33
6. Prosodic reduction 51
7. Rhythm and length in phonological variation 69
8. On Spanish empty N’ and N 83
9. On resyllabification in Spanish 97
10. The complementizer signature 115
11. On Spanish cleft sentences 129
12. Sonority and syllabification in Spanish 139
13. On the existence of null subjects in embedded clauses in old and middel French 155
14. Delinking processes in Romance 177
15. Inflection and periphrastic structures in Romance 195
16. Directionality of government and nominative case assignment in Romanian 209
17. French linking, English flapping, and te relation between syntax and phonology 225
18. The Spanish subjunctive and ‘relevance’ 249
19. On assimilation through schwa 261
20. Musically-conditioned stress shift in Spanish revisited 273
21. Barriers and Rumanian 289
22. Weather-verbs and the unaccusative hypothesis 313
23. Syntactic shift and the creation of clitics in Romance 347
24. Diphthongs and monophthongs in early Romance 365
25. Dialectal variation and clitic-doubled direct objects 377
26. Spanish endocentric compounds and the ‘atom condition’ 397
27. The evolution of pro-drop in Medieval French 413
28. The continuum of verb position typology in Romance 443
29. On the non-identity of morphological tense and temporal interpretation 479
30. Index 495