SEMANTIC ISSUES IN ROMANCE SYNTAX -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE -- Table of contents -- INFINITIVES VS. PARTICIPLES -- 1. Basic proposal -- 2. Infinitives vs. participles - Genericity vs. single event reading -- 3. The analysis -- 4. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- WITHOUT EXPLETIVE REPLACEMENT? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The expletive replacement proposal -- 3. A first problem: Principle A -- 4. A second problem: Principle C -- 5. Binding in CLLD -- 6. Dissociating Binding and Control? -- 7. Without Expletive Replacement -- 8. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- VERBAL STRUCTURES AND VARIATION -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Verb internal variation -- 3. Phrasal structur -- 4. Concluding remarks -- REFERENCES -- FRENCH DEGREE QUANTIFIERS AND THE SYNTAX OF MASS AND COUNT -- 1. The problem -- 2. French degree quantifiers -- 3. The mass/count distinction in the verbal system -- 4. The proposal -- 5. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- NEUTER RELATIVES AND THE DEGREE OPERATOR -- 1. Kayne's analysis of relative clauses -- 2. Degree relatives and the neuter determiner -- 3. The contribution of the semantics of lo -- 4. A syntactic analysis and its interpretation -- 5. The degree operator -- 6. Why does the adjective raise? -- REFERENCES -- ON THE INTERPRETATION OF SPANISH N-WORDS -- 1. Initial n-words as NQs -- 2. Standard non-initial n-words are NPIs -- 3. Non-initial n-words that function as NQs -- 4. Open questions -- REFERENCES -- WHAT DOES ZERO SYNTAX ADD TO AN ANALYSIS OF FRENCH PSYCH VERBS? -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Issues relating to Pesetsky's treatment -- 2. Revaluation of Pesetsky 's treatment -- 3. A minimalist proposal -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE PRONOUN ~ DETERMINER DEBATE: EVIDENCE FROM SARDINIAN AND REPERCUSSIONS FOR FRENCH -- 1. The pronoun-determiner debate -- 2. Evidence from Sardinian -- 3. Repercussions for French.

4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- A MINIMALIST APPROACH TO COMPOSITIONALITY OF ASPECT -- 1.0 Introduction -- 2.1 LexicalCompositionality (LC) -- 3.0 Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- CONFIGURATIONAL ATTITUDES -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Twotypes of belief -- 3. Extending the analysis: belief 'de se' and possession of beliefs -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- INFORMATION FOCUS: BETWEEN CORE AND PERIPHERY -- Introduction -- 1. Wide Focus Interpretation -- 2. Encoding Focus in Grammar -- 3. Focus and Subject In version -- 4. The Role of the EPP -- 5. Narrow focus -- 6. Markedness -- 7. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- RELATIVIZED IMPERSONALITY: DEONTIC SENTENCES IN CATALAN -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lexical relational structure of caldre -- 3. The Dative subject -- 4. The Object of caldre -- 5. Caldre + infinitive clause -- 5. Other Deontic Verbs -- 6. Concluding Remarks -- REFERENCES -- QUAINT AGREEMENT AND THE THEORY OF SPELL-OUT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Assumptions -- 3. Characterization -- 4. Analysis -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- AKTIONSART AND TRANSITIVE PHRASES -- 1. Interpretable Features and Functional Categories -- 2. What at is telicity ? -- 3. Determining the strength of the features -- 4. Unaccusatives -- 5. Summary and Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- DETERMINER TRANSPARENCY: EVIDENCE FROM BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE -- Introduction -- 1. Basics of VP Aspect Calculus -- 2. The syntax o/DT -- REFERENCES -- THE POST-VERBAL SUBJECT POSITION OF ITALIANUNACCUSATIVE VERBS OF INHERENTLYDIRECTED MOTION -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The 'implicit locative' of arrive-type verbs -- 3. The syntax of contrastivefocus in Italian -- 4. Explanation for relation between presence / absence of GOAL and interpretation of post-verbal subject -- 5. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF AUTHORS -- INDEXOF TERMS & CONCEPTS -- INDEX OF LANGUAGES & LANGUAGE FAMILIES.