Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. The spurious vs. dative problem 5
5. Givenness and the difference between wh -fronted and wh -in-situ questions in Spanish 21
6. The building blocks of Catalan ‘at least’ 41
7. On ben in Trentino regional Italian 55
8. Matrix complementisers and ‘speech act’ syntax 75
9. External possession in Brazilian Portuguese 95
10. Spanish adjectives are PathPs 111
11. Additive and aspectual anche in Old Italian 127
12. The acquisition of variation 143
13. Exploring sociolinguistic discontinuity in a minority variety of French 159
14. (And yet) another proposal for ser/estar 177
15. Spanish estarse is not only agentive, but also inchoative 209
16. From completely free to complete freedom 225
17. Romanian dependent numerals as ratios 245
18. For an overt movement analysis of comparison at a distance in French 259
19. The role of L2 exposure in L3A 279
20. European Portuguese focalizing SER ‘to be’ 297
21. Occitan, verb second and the Medieval Romance word order debate 315
22. Language index 337
23. Subject index 339