Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Root gerunds in Old Romanian 1
5. Old French possessives and ellipsis 21
6. The generalization of preposition para via fusion and ensuing loss of compositionality 39
7. On capacities and their epistemic extensions 59
8. Beyond the subject DP versus the subject pronoun divide in agreement switches 79
9. Epistemic adverbs, the prosody-syntax interface, and the theory of phases 99
10. Romanian tough-constructions and multi-headed constituents 119
11. Depictive secondary predicates in Spanish and the relative/absolute distinction 139
12. Gender agreement with animate nouns in French 159
13. French loanwords in Korean 177
14. Affirmative polar replies in Brazilian Portuguese 195
15. Participle fronting and clause structure in Old and Middle French 213
16. “Toned-up” Spanish 233
17. On null objects and ellipses in Brazilian Portuguese 257
18. Age effects and the discrimination of consonantal and vocalic contrasts in heritage and native Spanish 277
19. The linguistic competence of second-generation bilinguals 301
20. The X 0 syntax of “dative” clitics and the make-up of clitic combinations in Gallo-Romance 321
21. Some notes on falloir , devoir , and the theory of control 341
22. The phonology of postverbal pronouns in Romance languages 361
23. From N to particle 379
24. Marsican deixis and the nature of indexical syntax 399
25. Index 415