Null Segments in Romance

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface IX
4. List of Abbreviations XIII
5. Section One - Spanish
6. A Syllable-based Analysis of Spanish Spirantization 3
7. A Functional Approach to Subject Word Order in Spoken Spanish 23
8. Successive Cyclicity in Spanish 41
9. Reflexivity Turned Back on Itself 61
10. On Across-the-Board Movement in Spanish 75
11. Learned Words, Popular Words, and 'First Offenders' 87
12. Speaker-Based and Reference-Based Factors in Language: Non-Past Conditional Sentences in Spanish 99
13. A New Look at Afro-Hispanic Phonology: The Case of Equatorial Guinea 121
14. How Pro Is It? 137
15. Actions and Activeness in Spanish Clitic Selection 153
16. On the Evolution of Conditional Sentences in Old Spanish 167
17. Lexical Subjects of Infinitives in Caribbean Spanish 189
18. Section Two - French
19. An Empirical Study of the Syntax and Pragmatics of Left Dislocations in Spoken French 207
20. The Morphosyntax of French Personal Pronouns and the Acquisition/Learning Dichotomy 225
21. Obligating Null Heads in en-Constructions 243
22. Null Segments in Romance 265
23. French Liaison and Extrasyllabicity 283
24. Section Three - Other Languages
25. Section Three - Other Languages 309
26. The Latin Precursors of the 'Romance Reflexive' 321
27. Anything YOU Can Do in Brazilian Portuguese 343
28. Pragmatics of Insinuating Words: The Metamorphoses of Romanian CHIAR 359
29. On the Null Object in European Portuguese 373
30. On the Status of Subject Clitics in Romance 391
31. Indoeuropean, Latin, Romance: Some Typological Remarks 421
32. Index of key terms 447