Contents -- General Preface -- Dedication -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Outline -- 2 The Framework -- 2.1 Basic assumptions -- 2.2 The principles -- 2.3 Phrases and constituent structure -- 2.4 Lexical generalizations -- 2.5 The organization of the grammar and the implications for the interfaces: A comparison with other theories -- 3 Morphology and its Interfaces: The Case of Romance Clitics -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 A constrained-based view of morphology -- 3.2.1 The word-syntax approach -- 3.2.2 Realizational approaches -- 3.3 Romance clitics as a test case for grammatical interfaces -- 3.3.1 General properties of Romance clitics -- 3.3.2 The affixal status of Romance clitics -- 3.3.3 Phonology -- 3.3.4 Conclusions -- 3.4 A lexical analysis of Romance clitics -- 3.4.1 Clitic doubling -- 3.4.2 Subject clitics -- 3.5 Morphophonological properties of Romance clitics -- 3.5.1 Syntactic and morphological approaches to clitic distribution -- 3.5.2 The clitic cluster -- 3.5.3 The morphophonological features -- 3.5.4 The spelling out of Romance pronominal clitics -- 3.5.5 An alternative realizational approach -- 3.6 Germanic clitics -- 3.7 Slavic clitics -- 3.8 A brief review -- 3.9 Comparing frameworks: Distributed Morphology -- 3.10 Comparing frameworks: Optimality Theory -- 3.11 Conclusions -- 4 Syntax and its Interfaces: The Case of Romance Auxiliary Verbs -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Basic properties of Romanian tense auxiliaries -- 4.3 The syntactic structure of tense auxiliaries -- 4.3.1 The syntactic structure of French auxiliary verbs -- 4.3.2 The syntactic structure of Italian auxiliary verbs -- 4.3.3 The syntactic structure of Romanian tense auxiliaries -- 4.4 Mesoclisis in European Portuguese -- 4.5 Romanian tense auxiliaries and the distribution of pronominal clitics.

4.5.1 The position of pronominal clitics in the Romanian and Balkan clitic cluster -- 4.5.2 The ordering of Romanian clitics -- 4.5.3 The analysis of Romanian clitic climbing -- 4.6 Romanian tense auxiliaries and monosyllabic intensifiers -- 4.7 Romanian tense auxiliaries and negation -- 4.8 Romanian future auxiliaries -- 4.9 The perfect auxiliary fi -- 4.10 Romanian auxiliary-like constructions -- 4.10.1 Raising verbs -- 4.10.2 The modal verb a putea -- 4.11 A brief review -- 4.12 Comparison with other accounts -- 4.13 The role of argument structure: A comparison -- 4.14 What is the role of syntactic structure? -- 4.15 Conclusions -- 5 Phonology and its Interfaces: The Case of Italian Restructuring Verbs -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The data -- 5.3 The syntactic structure of Italian restructuring verbs -- 5.4 Restructuring verbs and clitic climbing -- 5.5 The Prosodic Representation of Restructuring Verbs -- 5.5.1 Evidence against Prosodic Word status -- 5.5.2 Evidence in favour of Phonological Phrase status -- 5.6 The syntax-phonology interface -- 5.6.1 Ghini (1993) -- 5.6.2 Selkirk (1986, 1995) and Truckenbrodt (1999) -- 5.6.3 Nespor and Vogel (1986) -- 5.7 A templatic view on restructuring verbs: Cinque (2000) -- 5.8 Conclusions -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.