Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Auxiliaries and the structure of IP constituents -- 1. 1. Auxiliary constructions -- 1. 2. The structure of auxiliary constructions -- 1. 3. Auxiliaries, bare infinitives and the distribution of clitics -- 1. 4. Auxiliary structures and Long Head Movement -- 1. 5. The licensing of verbs, auxiliaries and types of IP constituents -- 1. 6. The perfect auxiliary fi 'be' -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- 2. Clitic Placement and the rule of Move I-to-C -- 2. 1. Cliticization in Romance languages -- 2. 2. Romanian clitics -- 2. 3. The rule of V-preposing and clitic Merging -- 2. 4. Move I-to-C (V-preposing) in auxiliary structures -- Conclusions -- Appendix: A diachronic note: early Romance inverted conjugations -- 3. The constituent structure of infinitives and subjunctives -- 3. 1. The constituent structure of infinitival clauses -- 3. 2. The constituent structure of subjunctive clauses -- 4. Subject anaphors in subjunctive clauses -- 4. 1. The data: control, subject raising and obviation -- 4. 2. PRO and control structures -- 4. 3. On the contextual identification of anaphors -- 4. 4. Subject raising -- 4. 5. Obviation -- 4. 6. The constituent structure of Romanian subjunctives -- 4. 7. The governing category of the subject of Romanian subjunctives -- 4. 8. The null subject of Romanian infinitives -- Conclusions -- 5. Copula passives and middle/passive se with (in)transitives -- Introduction -- 5. 1. Passives with (in)transitives -- 5. 2. Passive se with (in)transitives -- 5. 3. Remarks on certain contrasts between Romanian and Italian -- Appendix 1: Indexed elements and indexed chains -- Appendix 2: On Case assignment in passives -- 6. Clitic doubling, wh-movement and quantification -- 6. 1. Quantification and movement in wh-structures -- 6. 2. Quantification and movement in Left Dislocations.

6. 3. Quantified NPs and Quantifier Raising -- 6. 4. Indirect objects -- Appendix - Italian CLLD -- 7. What does QR raise? -- 7. 1. Two LF rules: NPR and DR -- 7. 2. LF representations and NP denotations -- 7. 3. Locality conditions on DR -- 7. 4. DR and wh-movement -- 7. 5. On the licensing of A'-bound empty categories -- 7. 6. Three LF representations for how many -- 7. 7. DR, referentiality and locality -- 7. 8. Weak islands and scope -- Appendix 1: Non referentiality without DR -- Appendix 2: Strong determiners -- Bibliography -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.