Uncovering French syllable structure with Verlan

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1: Phonology
5. More than Coda Conditions in Italian phonology 3
6. The representation of rising diphthongs in Spanish 19
7. Uncovering French syllable structure with Verlan 37
8. The interaction between the evolution of syllable structure and foot structure in the evolution from Classical Latin to Old French 55
9. Stress clash and segment deletion 81
10. Metaphony and count/mass morphology in Asturian and Cantabrian dialects 99
11. An underspecification analysis of two French vowel systems 115
12. 2: Morphology
13. Headship assignment in Spanish compounds 131
14. Lexical category hierarchy and “head of compound” in Spanish 151
15. Morphological heads, French “compounding” and Germanic “prefixation” 167
16. Compound word formation in French 181
17. Recycling words 197
18. Verbal and adjectival participles in Spanish 219
19. The inherent variability of the French Subjunctive 235
20. 3: Syntax and Semantics
21. The lack of infinitival clauses in Salentino 267
22. Infinitives with specified subjects in Sardinian 295
23. Inverted conjugations and V-second effects in Romance 311
24. An adjunct extraction paradox in Spanish 329
25. Extensions of R-binding 347
26. French inalienable binding 367
27. Tense-binding and construal of present tense 385
28. On the morphology of reflexives and impersonals 399
29. Linking and case 415
30. Focus constructions in Catalan 457
31. The Gascon enunciative as syntactic solution 481
32. Index of Language and Language Families 497
33. Index of Names 500
34. Index of Concepts 507