On the Recoverability of Null Objects

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Summaries of Part One: Phonology and Morphology x
6. Summaries of Part Two: Syntax and Semantics xii
7. Part One: Phonology and Morphology
8. The Acquisition of Spanish Syllable Structure 3
9. Syllabification and Resyllabification in French 19
10. Length in Milanese 37
11. Old French Stress Patterns and Closed Syllable Adjustment 49
12. Contrastive and Allophonic Properties of Brazilian Portuguese Vowels 77
13. On Deriving Specifiers in Spanish 101
14. Part Two: Syntax and Semantics
15. Subjunctive and ECP 125
16. Differential Object Marking in Romance and Beyond 143
17. Case Absorption, Theta Structure and Pronominal Verbs 171
18. Latin Prepositions and Romance Syntax 187
19. In Search of the Spanish Personal Infinitive 201
20. Some Stops on the Modality Line 221
21. Clitic Climbing in Infinitival Constructions of Middle French 235
22. On Comparing French and Italian 253
23. Exceptional Case Marking Effects in Rumanian Subjunctive Complements 273
24. On the Recoverability of Null Objects 299
25. VP-Nominative Constructions in Italian 313
26. Thematicity and “Object”-Participle Agreement in Romance 335
27. The Ambivalent Nature of Spanish Infinitives 353
28. Deriving Expletives as Complements 371
29. Index of Names 389
30. Index of Languages and Language Families 396
31. Index of Concepts 400