FORMAL PERSPECTIVES ON ROMANCE LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Dedication -- FORMAL PERSPECTIVES ON ROMANCE LINGUISTICS -- 1. Phrase structure and adjunction -- 2. Functional projections and their features -- 3. Feature checking and its consequences -- 4. The syntax-semantics interface -- 5. The status of UG in second language acquisition -- 6. Phonology and morphology -- 7. The phonology -phonetics interface -- 8. Syllabification and lexical levels -- 9. Transderivation and allomorphy selection -- REFERENCES -- OBJECT BARE PLURALS IN SPANISH AND THE SEMANTICS OF PERSONAL A -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Constraints on bare nouns in Spanish -- 2. Two neocarlsonian approaches to BPLs -- 3. Toward an account -- 4. Open questions and issues for future work -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- CASE FEATURE CHECKING AND ITS CONSEQUENCES EVIDENCE FROM EN-CLITICIZATION IN FRENCH -- 1. A new solution to an old problem: en-cliticization in French -- 2. Better empirical coverage of French -- 3. A natural extension to other Romance languages -- 4. Towards an explanation of the definiteness restriction -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ASSIBILATION IN ECUADORIAN SPANISH A PHONOLOGY-PHONETICS ACCOUNT -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Distribution of rhotics in Ecuadorian and Standard Spanish -- 2. Phonological accounts of the Standard flap-trill alternation -- 3. Problems for phonological accounts of Ecuadorian -- 4. A phonology-phonetics account of Ecuadorian -- 5. Concluding remarks -- REFERENCES -- HOW SIMILAR ARE CONJUNCTS? AGAINST ASYMMETRIC CONJUNCTION -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The 'Law of Coordination of Likes' and its counterexamples -- 2. Conjunction of temporally and aspectually dissimilar features -- 3. The role of adverbs -- 4. On the asymmetry between tense and agreement.

5. Negation -- 6. Implications for the structure of conjunction -- 7. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- DERIVING HEAVY NP-SHIFT IN FRENCH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Some properties of heavy NPs in Standard French -- 2. Some properties of heavy NPs in Canadian French -- 3. Deriving Heavy NP-shift in Standard and Canadian French -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE PRESUPPOSITIONALITY CONDITION AND SPANISH CLITIC-DOUBLED OBJECTS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Preliminary assumptions -- 2. The analysis -- 3. Reconstruction -- 4. Crosslinguistic data -- 5. Additional asymmetries -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- POSITIONAL FAITHFULNESS VS. CUE PRESERVATION THE CASE OF NASAL SEQUENCE RESOLUTION IN GALLO-ROMANCE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Current approaches to assimilation in Optimality Theory -- 2. Analysis of the Gallo-Romance data -- 3. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- PASSIVES AND ARBITRARY PLURAL SUBJECTS IN SPANISH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Towards an explanation: pro subject in passive sentences -- 2. First difference: The presence of passive morphology -- 3. The second difference: The presence of by-phrases -- 4. Indefinite SE -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- SPANISH INDEFINITES AND TYPE-DRIVEN INTERPRETATION -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Bare plurals and indefinites from a type-theoretical perspective -- 2. Three types of indefinites -- 3. Unos "a-pl. "as a group indefinite -- 4. Choice function indefinites -- 5. Focus and type-shifting -- 6. Differential scope of indefinites -- REFERENCES -- MINIMALIST ACCESS TO UG IN L2 FRENCH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The access debate and the Minimalist Program -- 2. The Verb Raising Parameter in L2 French -- 3. Beyond parameter setting evidence -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- CONFLICTUAL AGREEMENT IN ROMANCE NOMINALS -- 0.Introduction -- 1. An apparent case of conflictual agreement -- 2.Conflictual agreement in qualitativ e nominals.

3. The internal structure of qualitative DPs -- 4. External agreement -- 5. Internal agreement -- REFERENCES -- RESYLLABIFICATION PRECEDES ALL SEGMENTAL RULES EVIDENCE FROM ARGENTINIAN SPANISH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Caribbean Spanish I -- 2. Rio Negro Argentinian and Caribbean II -- 3. Buenos Aires Argentinian and Chinato -- 4. Summary -- REFERENCES -- OBJECTS AND THE STRUCTURE OF IMPERATIVES -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Internal arguments in imperatives -- 2. Analysis -- 3. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- NULL OBJECTS AND D° FEATURES IN CONTACT SPANISH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Pronominal null objects in contact varieties of Spanish -- 2. The syntactic distribution of null objects in languages in contact -- 3. Languages in contact and the 'Transfer of D° Hypothesis' -- REFERENCES -- LEXICAL CONSERVATISM IN FRENCH ADJECTIVAL LIAISON -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lexical conservatism in English Level 2 phonology -- 3. Formalizing lexical conservatism and split base effects -- 4. French liaison analyzed -- 5. Extensions -- 6. Implications and conclusions -- REFERENCES -- OPTIONAL SCHWA DELETION ON SYLLABLE ECONOMY IN FRENCH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Proposal -- 2. Illustrations -- 3. Interaction of OSD with suppletive liaison -- 4. French ce/cet "this " in other dialects/registers -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- GEMINATES AND CLUSTERS IN ITALIAN AND PIEDMONTESE: A CASE FOR OT RANKING -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Optimality Theory -- 2. Long segments and [sC] clusters in Standard Italian -- 3. Piedmontese -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- STRUCTURAL CASE AND TENSE CONSTRUAL -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Tense interpretation, TP, and Time arguments -- 2. Times and functional projections in clause structure -- 3. Checking features of Time Phrases -- 4. [±Finite] feature mismatches -- 5. Accusative and finiteness -- 6. Concluding remarks -- REFERENCES.

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