ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTIC THEORY 2000 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- INTRODUCTION -- Table of contents -- ARBITRARY PRONOUNS ARE NOT THAT INDEFINITE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Proarb as a heimian indefinite -- 2. Empirical problems for the HIA -- 3. The Indexical-Definite vs. Generic Type -- 4. Underspecified Eventualities -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- WH-QUESTIONS AND WH-EXCLAMATIVES - UNIFYING MIRROR EFFEC TS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Main assumptions -- 2. Wh-movement - Wh-questions -- 2.1. Typology -- 2.2. Wh-in-situ - different strategies -- 2.3. Wh-in-situ - the claim -- 3. Inversion - wh-questions -- 3.1. Different strategies -- 3.2 Typology -- 3.3. Presence of inversion - 'pure' wh-questions -- 3.4. Absence of inversion - wh-questions ('echo flavor') and wh-exclamatives -- 4. Wh-Exclamatives -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- IMPRERSONAL CONSTRUCTIONS, CONTROL AND SECOND-ORDER PREDICATION -- 1. Two analyses of impersonal constructions -- 2. A semantic theory of anaphora and control -- 3. The control properties of impersonal constructions -- 4. Other semantic properties of impersonal constructions -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- COMPLEMENTIZER DELETION IN FLORENTINE: THE INTERACTION BETWEEN MERGE AND MOVE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two types of CD -- 2.1. [- realis] CD (CD1) -- 2.2. Argumental CD (CD2) -- 3. Previous analyses of the CD phenomenon -- 4. A new proposal : alternative checking -- 5. CD and the Force Projection -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- RHEMATIC FOCUSAT THE LEFT PERIPHERY: THE CASE OF ROMANIAN -- 1. Background and aim -- 2. Questions and the architecture of the LP -- 3. The Preverbal Subject -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- MULTIPLE FOCUS IN EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE: APPARENT OPTIONALITY AND SUBJECT POSITIONS -- 1. Introduction and problem.

2. Semantic properties of multiple-wh questions -- 2.1. Differences between VSO and SVO -- 2.2. Argume nts -- 3. Theoretical consequences -- References -- EXTERNAL SUBJECTS IN TWO VARIETIES OF PORTUGUESE: EVIDENCE FOR A NON-UNIFIED ANALYSIS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Evidence for short-V-movement in Portuguese -- 3. Differences between EP and BP -- 4. Proposal -- 5. Analysis of the differences between BP and EP -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- EXTREME NON-SPECIFICITY IN ROMANIAN -- 1. Background -- 1.2 Cîte DPs in Romanian -- 1.3 The (In)definiteness Scale -- 1.4 Specificity -- 2. Vreun DPs in Romanian -- 2.1 Environments where vreun DPs may occur -- 2.2. Environments where vreun DPs may not occur -- 2.3 What vreun DPs are not -- 2.4. What vreun DPs might be -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- RESULTATIVES: SMALL CLAUSES OR COMPLEX VPS? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Resultatives as small clauses vs resultatives as complex predicates -- 3. Does Italian have resultatives? -- 4. Accomplishment prepositions and telic pairs -- 5. Predictions and solutions -- 6. Speculations and further research -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- TOPIC, FOCUS AND SECONDARY PREDICATION: THE FRENCH PRESENTATIONAL RELATIVE CONSTRUCTION -- 1. The presentational relative construction -- 2. Types of presentational relative construction -- 3. The PRC headed by avoir: grammatical structure and information structure -- 3.1. The existential PRC -- 3.2. The cleft PRC -- 3.3. The enumerative PRC -- 4. Summary and conclusion -- References -- INTONATIVE STRUCTURE OF FOCALIZATION IN FRENCH AND GREEK -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous phonological analyses -- 2.1. Rossi (1999) -- 2.2. Di Cristo (1997, 1998, 1999) -- 2.3. Martin (1981, 1982) -- 2.4. Problem -- 3. Intonation structure of focalisation -- 3.1. Hierarchical and recursive structure -- 3.2. The notion of tonal primitive.

3.3. The formal dominance relations -- 3.3.1. Phonological rules in a structure with hierarchically organised topics -- 3.3.2. Phonological rules in a structure with non-hierarchically organised topics -- 3.4. Unmarked tones -- 4. Modern Greek -- 4.1. Intonative structure in Greek declarative utterances -- 4.2. The problem of tonal alignment -- 4.3.1. Intonative Patterns -- 4.3.2 Interpretation -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- SPLITTING UP SUBJECT CLITIC-VERB INVERSION -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The non-assertive series of subject clitic pronouns -- 2. The contexts of use of non-assertive subject clitics -- 2.1 Subject clitic inversion in Friulian -- 2.2 The crossdialectal variation -- 3. A formal account of the data -- 3.1 Splitting up the hosting head -- 3.2 An apparent and revealing exception -- 4. On the hierarchical ordering of the relevant heads -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- EDGING QUANTIFIERS: ON QP-FRONTING IN WESTERN ROMANCE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Clitic Left Dislocation vs. Focus Fronting -- 3. Quantificational QP-Fronting -- 4. Interpretation and Syntax of QP-Fronting -- 4.1. Interpretive Properties -- 4.2. Syntactic Properties -- 4.3. Mapping -- 5. Crosslinguistic Coda: QP-Fronting in Portuguese and Italian -- References -- PARTITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS AND ANTISYMMETRY -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Previous analyses of the partitive construction -- 2. The simple complement analysis -- 3. Towards a clausal analysis -- 4. The analysis of the clause -- 5. On agreement -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- STRESS-FOCUS CORRESPONDENCE IN ITALI AN -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The unmarked utterance -- 3. Marked focus and discourse-linked status -- 3.1. The syntax-phonology mapping -- 3.2. The unmarked utterance in Italian -- 3.3. Focus movement in Italian -- 3.4, String-medial focus: a case of right-dislocation -- 3.5. Left-peripheral focus: the third way.

4. Conclusion -- References -- DEFINITE AND BARE KIND-DENOTING NOUN PHRASES -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tests for noun phrase genericity -- 2.1. The division of labor -- 3. Romance definites -- 3.1. Indefinite definites -- 4. The neo-Carlsonian view -- 4.1. Scope and bare nouns in Italian -- 4.2. Italian definites revisited -- 4.3. Indefinite definite revisited -- 4.4. Existential readings with singular definites -- 5. Ways to indefinites -- 5.1. Cross linguistic factors -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- INDEX OF LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS -- SUBJECT INDEX.