LINGUISTIC THEORY AND THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Contributors' Addresses -- Introduction -- Aspects of Quantification in French in its Regional and Diachronic Varieties -- 0. Theoretical background: the status of Quantifier Phrase (QP) -- 1. On the syntactic status of quantifiers in French -- 2. Nominal quantifiers in French -- 3. Diachronic and regional perspectives on this analysis -- 4. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- The prepositional accusative in Sardinian: its distribution and syntactic repercussions -- 0. Introduction. -- 1. Distribution of accusative a -- 2. Prepositional accusatives with pro-forms. -- 3. Prepositional accusatives and grammatical Case. -- 4. Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Voice, Aspect, and Arbitrary Arguments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The aspect constraint -- 3. The implicit argument -- 4. Voice and argument structure -- References -- Evidence from the Italian dialects for the internal structure of prosodic domains -- Notes -- References -- Some observations on the syntax of clitic pronouns in Piedmontese -- Notes -- References -- Perceptual factors and the disappearance of agreement between past participle and direct object in Romance -- Notes -- References -- Segmental and Suprasegmental Structure in Southern French -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical principles -- 3. Vowels in Southern French -- 4. Nasalized vowels -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- 'Underspecification' and 'misagreement' in Catalan lexical specifiers -- Notes -- References -- Index.