CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN ROMANCE LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- ON THE STATUS OF SEQUENCES OFLIQUIDS IN ROMANCE -- 0. Introduction: Loss of r-codas in Vinzelles Occitan -- 1. Criticism of Morin's analysis -- 2. Long distance dissimilation and deletion of liquids in Romance -- 3. An alternative analysis of the problem -- 4. Liquid restrictions at the licenser level -- 5. Dominance and adjacency effects -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- GLIDE FORMATION, PREFIXATION, AND THE PHONOLOGICAL WORD IN FRENCH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Prosodic phonology -- 2. French phonological word -- 2.1. Glide Formation. -- 2.2. Préfixai nasalization. -- 2.3. Other prefixes. -- 3. Advantages -- 4. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- CODA WEIGHT AND VOWEL LENGTH IN QUEBEC FRENCH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The data -- 2. Overview: the four sources of length -- 2.1. Circumflex Lengthening (CFL). -- 2.2. Nasal Compensatory Lengthening (NCL). -- 2.3. Closed Syllable Lengthening (CSL). -- 2.4. Voiced Continuant Lengthening (VCL). -- 3. Extraprosodicity -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON DELETION RULES IN CATALAN -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Theoretical assumptions -- 1.1 Problems with deletion rules. -- 1.2. The interleafing of phonology with morphology. -- 1.3. Syllabic templates. -- 2. Lexical Deletion in Catalan -- 2.1. /n/-Deletion. -- 2.2. /r/-Deletion. -- 2.3. Cluster simplification. -- 3. Rule ordering -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE REPRESENTATION OF FRENCH FINAL CONSONANTS AND RELATED ISSUES -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The phonological representations of fixed and latent consonants -- 1.1. Skeletal floatation. -- 1.2. Syllabic floatation. -- 1.3. Double floatation. -- 1.4. Moralc Theory and latent consonants. -- 1.5. Conclusion. -- 2. The prosodic integration of latent consonants -- 2.1. Vowel-initial words in French.

2.2. The representation of vowel-initial words. -- 2.2.1. The representation of true vowel-initial words. -- 2.2.2. The representation of h-aspiré words. -- 2.3. The prosodic integration of latent consonants: Discussion. -- 2.4. The case of h-aspiré words. -- 3. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON OLD FRENCH GENITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Old French Genitive Constructions -- 1.1. The Genitive with à. -- 2.2. The Genitive with de. -- 1.3. The Juxtaposition Genitive. -- 1.3.1. The Postnominal Juxtaposition Genitive. -- 2. Old French genitive constructions and the structure of DP -- 2.1. DP hypothesis. -- 2.2. AGR in DP. -- 2.2.1. Old French AGR as [+lexical], [+strong]. -- 2.2.2. The structure of Old French DPs. -- 3. Language change -- 4. Summary -- REFERENCES -- FRENCH PRESENTATIONAL STRUCTURES -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Methodology -- 2. Results -- 3. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- THE EVOLUTION OF CAUSATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE -- 0. Introduction -- 2. Use of the pronoun se -- 3. Clitic placement -- 4. Case marking -- 5. Word order -- 6. Motivations for the change in complement types -- REFERENCES -- IS THERE AN INDIAN SPANISH? -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Phonology of San Andrés Spanish -- 2. Grammar of San Andrés Spanish -- 3. Lexical peculiarities in Otomi Spanish -- 4. Repetition in Otomi Spanish discourse -- 5. Nahuatl Spanish phonological and grammatical features -- 6. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- FROM LEBRIXA'S GRAMMAR TO CARTESIAN LANGUAGE THEORY: A RETROJECTIVE VIEW -- REFERENCES -- THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF RUMANIAN /i/ -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Diachronic rules resulting in Rumanian /i/ -- 2. Early Common Slavic loanwords and placenames in Rumanian -- 3. Characteristics of phonological borrowing -- 4. Language shift -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- FEATURE-CHECKING AND THE SYNTAX OF LANGUAGE CONTACT.

REFERENCES -- DIALECTAL VARIATION IN AN ARGUMENTAL/NON-ARGUMENTAL ASYMMETRY IN SPANISH -- 1. General Spanish -- 2. Puerto Rican Caribbean -- 3.A Comparison of GS and PRS -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- PRIMITIVES, METAPHOR AND GRAMMAR -- 0. Introduction -- 1. On the content of semantic representations -- 2. Two problems for global semantics: Indexical linking and polysemy -- 3. A selective approach -- 4. Case studies -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON CERTAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HAITIAN AND FRENCH PREDICATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS -- 0. Haitian and French in Diachrony -- 1. Haitian Se and French C'est : Alike? -- 2. Haitian Se and French C'est : Different? -- 3. What is the Nature of Se? -- 4. Implications -- 5. Haitian and French in Diachrony (bis) -- REFERENCES -- DISTINGUISHING COPULAR AND ASPECTUAL AUXILIARIES: SPANISH SER AND ESTAR -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Some Distinguishing Properties of ser and estar -- 2. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE VP-INTERNAL SUBJECT HYPOTHESIS AND SPANISH SENTENCE STRUCTURE -- REFERENCES -- THE WORD ORDER OF CONSTRUCTIONS WITH A VERB, A SUBJECT, AND A DIRECT OBJECT IN SPOKEN SPANISH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Informational word order -- 2. Focus of contrast -- 3. Focal direct object -- 4. Sentence topic direct object -- 5. Contrary to expectation -- 6. Comment focalization -- 7. Generalizations -- REFERENCES -- VERB INCORPORATION AND THE HMC IN XVIth CENTURY SPANISH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Short Head Movement Proposal -- 2. Participle Raising in Main and Subordinate Sentences -- 3. Negation and Participle Raising -- 4. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- NON-THEMATIC DATIVES IN SPANISH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The MasullolBaker account of PI for Spanish datives -- 2. Possessor Raising as Preposition Incorporation of a genitive phrase -- 3. Benefactives as Preposition Incorporation of an adjunct.

4. Ambiguity among thematic roles, benefactives, possessives -- REFERENCES -- RESTRICTING RELATIVIZED MINIMALITY: THE CASE OF ROMANCE CLITICS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The infinitival AGR~S° and the imperative AGR-C° as anaphors -- 3. The anaphoric AGR°(-S/-C°) as intervening governors -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON THE NATURE OF SPEC/IP AND ITS RELEVANCE FOR SCOPE ASYMMETRIES IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH -- 1. On Certain ECP Effects in Spanish -- 2. Wh-phrase/QP Interactions: Some Puzzling Asymmetries -- 3. On the Nature of SPEC/IP and its Relevance for Quantification -- REFERENCES -- THE VERBAL COMPONENT IN ITALIAN COMPOUNDS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Verb + Noun Compounds -- 2. The Verb Stem -- 3. Novel verb+noun compounds -- 4. Implications for the imperative -- 5. Conclusions -- REFERENCES.