Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2011 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- A'-dependencies in French: A study in L1 acquisition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A'-dependencies in French: From syntax to acquisition -- 2.1 WH-constructions -- 2.2 Relative Clauses -- 3. An experimental study of A'-dependencies in French -- 3.1 Predictions -- 3.2 Participants -- 3.3 Material -- 3.4 Procedure -- 3.5 Results -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- The irregular forms of the Italian "Passato Remoto": A synchronic and diachronic analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Distributed Morphology -- 3. Basic properties of Italien verbal morpho-syntax -- 4. The Passato Remoto forms of regular verbs -- 5. The Passato Remoto forms of irregular verbs -- 6. The alternations between thematic and athematic forms in the Passato Remoto -- 7. Development of passata remote forms -- 8. Memorized alternants in the Passato Remoto Morphology -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- On the lack of stranded negated quantifiers and inverse scope of negation in Romance -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Subject of the article -- 1.2 The Stranding Analysis of Sportiche (1988) and Giusti (1990) -- 1.3 The Theory of Sentential Negation in Zeijlstra (2004) -- 1.4 The Neg Stranding Hypothesis of Cirillo (2009) -- 2. Stranded negated quantifiers -- 3. Inverse scope of negation -- 3.1 Presentation of the hypothesis -- 3.2 Alternatives to Neg Stranding -- 3.3 Issues and Answers from Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish and French -- 4. Summary -- References -- Evidence for the competition-based analysis of subjunctive obviation from relative and adverbial cl -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Data -- 3.1 Obviation in nonargument clauses -- 3.2 Obviation weakening -- 3.3 Clause types and infinitival clauses -- 4. Approaches based on Binding Theory.

5. Conclusions -- References -- Quotative expansions -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Basic quotative constructions -- 2. Predicative constructions with finite dependents -- 2.1 More quotative predications -- 2.2 The status of lo -- 3. Binominal quotative constructions -- 3.1 Definiteness restrictions -- 3.2 A structural variant -- 3.3 The quotative reading -- 3.4 Back to que-clauses -- 3.5 Interim summary -- 4. Gerundive quotatives -- 5. A note on silence -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Datives, prepositions, and argument structure in Spanish -- 1. Introduction and data -- 2. Previous accounts -- 2.1 Cuervo (2003)'s tripartite applicative system -- 2.2 Pujalte's (2009) core vs. non-core datives -- 2.3 Beavers and Nishida (2010)'s lexical alternation -- 3. Transfer of possession -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- A typology of agreement processes and its implications for language development -- 1. Introduction: agreement and locality -- 2. Agreement in Early Italian -- 3. Experiment − a Forced Choice of Grammatical Form Task -- 3.1 Materials -- 3.2 Subjects -- 3.3 Results -- 4. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- On the syntax of focalizers in some Italo-Romance dialects -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Focalizing subjects -- 2.1 Focalizing preverbal subjects -- 2.2 Focalizing postverbal subjects -- 3. Focalizing objects -- 3.1 Focalizing postverbal objects -- 3.2 Focalizing preposed objects -- 4. A crosslinguistic view: puru in Southern Italian dialects -- 4.1 Puru in Northern Calabrian -- 4.2 Puru in Central Sicilian -- 4.3 Puru in Southern Sardinian -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- The phonotactics of word-initial clusters in Romance: Typological and theoretical implications -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical approaches to the phonotactics of the word-initial position -- 2.1 Ordinary syllable-based account -- 2.2 The CVCV account.

3. Word-initial clusters in Latin and Romance -- 3.1 Latin -- 3.2 Italian -- 3.3 French -- 3.4 Emilian (Gallo-Italic) -- 3.5 Piedmontese -- 3.6 Abruzzese -- 3.7 Picard -- 4. Other language families -- 4.1 Slavic -- 4.2 Germanic -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Double object constructions in Spanish (and Catalan) revisited -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Evidence supporting our hypothesis -- 2.1 Anaphoric phenomena -- 2.2 Binding and distributive readings of possessive pronouns -- 2.3 Passivization -- 2.4 Lexical-semantic differences -- 3. Proposal -- 4. Consequences -- 4.1 Bidirectionality of c-command -- 4.2 And when there is no transfer of possession? -- 4.3 The notion of affectedness / possession in DOC -- 5. Evidence from pronominalization -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Cognitive economy, non-redundancy and typological primacy in L3 acquisition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Why L3/Ln acquisition must not be regarded as another instance of L2 -- 3. On transfer: a generative definition and methodological thoughts for L3 studies -- 4. Generative L3/Ln: An emerging field -- 4.1 L3/Ln development -- 4.2 L3/Ln Initial Stages and Transfer -- 5. Some thoughts on the underlying basis of the TPM -- 5.1 What linguistic cues underlie typological primacy for L3/Ln transfer? -- 5.2 The lexicon -- 5.3 Phonological/phonotactic cues -- 5.4 Functional morphology and its features -- 5.5 Syntactic structure -- 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- L1 acquisition of noun ellipsis in French and in Dutch: Consequences for linguistic theory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Licensors of noun ellipsis -- 2.1 The role of partitivity -- 2.2 The role of inflection -- 2.3 The role of quantitative pronouns -- 3. Previous research on the acquisition of noun ellipsis and the use of the quantitative pronoun -- 3.1 Noun ellipsis without a quantitative pronoun.

3.2 Noun ellipsis with a quantitative pronoun -- 4. This study -- 4.1 Noun ellipsis without a quantitative pronoun in L1 acquisition -- 4.2 Noun ellipsis with a quantitative pronoun in L1 acquisition -- 4.3 Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Index.