Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Expressing contrast in Romanian 1
5. When the benefit is on the fringe 19
6. Degree fronting in Québec French and the syntactic structure of degree quantifier DPs 39
7. On sentence-internal le même (‘the same’) in French and pluractionality 55
8. Topic prominence is not a factor of variation between Brazilian and European Portuguese 71
9. When Dialectology studies contribute to lexical semantics and to Etymology 89
10. Cartography and agrammatic syntactic production in Ibero-Romance 115
11. The valuation of gender agreement in DP 133
12. (Definite) denotation and case in Romance 149
13. Compounding in Romance and English 167
14. Epistemic modals in the past 185
15. Floating parenthetical coordinate clauses 203
16. Unfortunate questions 223
17. Typology or reconstruction 239
18. Sentential coordination and ellipsis 255
19. Underapplication of vowel reduction to schwa in Majorcan Catalan productive derivation and verbal inflection 273
20. Focus and the development of N-words in Spanish 291
21. On verbal duplication in River Plate Spanish 305
22. Stylistic Fronting and Remnant movement in Old French 323
23. Person restrictions and the representation of third person – an argument from Barceloní Catalan 343
24. Definite DPs without lexical nouns in French 363
25. Index 391