ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTIC THEORY 2003 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTENTS -- AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO VARIATION IN OT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. r-deletion in Brazilian Portuguese - An OT Account -- 3. Across-Word Regressive Assimilation in Picard - An OT Account -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- ON FACTS IN THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF ITALIAN* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Events, propositions and facts -- 3. Facts and truth -- 3.1 Some preliminary observations on the factive truth-predicate -- 3.2 Deriving the disquotational usage -- 4. Facts and pronominal anaphora -- References -- ON THE STATUS OF STEMS IN MORPHOLOGICAL THEORY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Verbal Inflection of Latin -- 3. Stems -- 4. Stems in Latin? -- 4.1 The Perfect -- 4.2 "Past"/"Passive" and "Future Active" Participles -- 4.3 Stems and "Morphology by Itself" -- 5. Conclusions and Further Directions -- References -- ITALIAN [VN] COMPOUND NOUNS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical Premises for a Syntactic Analysis -- 2.1 Nominal Compound Types in Italian and the [NØ] Hypothesis -- 2.2 How NØ Enters into the Structure -- 3. The Analysis of VN Compounds -- 3.1 Semantics -- 3.2 Syntax -- 3.3 Morphology -- 4. Previous Analyses on the End Vocalic Segments [a-i-i] -- 4.1 Arguments Against the Imperative Solution -- 4.2 Arguments Against the Present Tense Hypothesis -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIQUIDS FROM LATIN TO CAMPIDANIAN SARDINIAN -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Latin liquids in Campidanian clusters -- 3. Sardinian: a one-liquid system -- 3.1 Phonological patterns -- 3.2 /L/ in the obstruent subset -- 3.3 Summary -- 4. Coda /R/ in Campidanian -- 4.1 Data -- 4.2 Coda requirements -- 4.3 Segment representations -- 4.4 Computing repair strategies -- 5. Conclusions -- References.

CLITIC PLACEMENT AND THE POSITION OF SUBJECTS IN THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The variation between enclisis and proclisis in Classical Portuguese -- 3. The evolution of clitic placement in V3 constructions from Classical to Modern European Portuguese -- 3.1 Enclisis and Proclisis in V3: 16th and 17th centuries -- 3.2 Enclisis and Proclisis in V3 after 1700 -- 4. The dissociation of SVcl and XVcl and the loss of VS -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- References -- SUBJECT INVERSION IN SPANISH RELATIVE CLAUSES -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Wh-interrogatives -- 1.2 Focalization -- 2. Prominence, prosodic weight and word order -- 2.1 Prosodic structure -- 2.2 Prosodic weight and intonational prominence -- 3. An OT analysis -- 4. Extensions of the Analysis -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- ATTRITION AND INTERPRETABLE FEATURES -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Interpretability of features and syntactic attrition -- 2.1 Subjects -- 2.2 White & Genesee's Criteria -- 3. Syntactic subjects -- 4. The interpretable feature of number -- 4.1 Number -- 5. Results and discussion -- References -- ACCELERATION IN BILINGUAL FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION -- 1. Language influence and language separation in bilingual acquisition -- 2. Nominal arguments and the NP/ DP distinction -- 2.1. Why language influence in the nominal domain is expected -- 3. The acquisition of determiners -- 3.1 The "Romance"- "Germanic" asymmetry in acquisition -- 3.2 The data -- 3.3 Acceleration in the acquisition of determiners in the German of the bilingual children -- 4. Article functions in the early grammar of a bilingual German-French child -- 5. Conclusion and discussion -- References -- "FOCUS VS" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Focus VS in French -- 2.1 Examples -- 2.2 The interpretation of the postverbal subject -- 2.3 Syntactic properties -- 3. Two analyses for VS in the literature.

4. The analysis of focus VS -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The type of verb movement involved in the derivation of focus VS -- 4.3 The position of the subject in focus VS -- 4.4 The position of the verb phrase (TP) in focus VS -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- ASPECTUAL QUANTIZATION AND [±] ACCUSATIVE CASE CHECKING IN ROMANCE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Displacement and case checking -- 2.1 The Minimalist Program -- 2.2 "Weak" and "strong" case -- 2.3 Absolute small clauses (ASCs) -- 2.4 Subject in-situ Generalization (Alexiadou & Anagnostopoulou 2001:216) -- 3. The conflation of sentential and lexical aspect and the theory of case -- 4. The analysis -- 4.1 The trigger for V-movement and case activation -- 4.2 AGREE as a default case -- 4.3 Differential object marking -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- STRATA, YES -- STRUCTURE PRESERVATION, NO. -- 1. Two issues in phonological theory -- 1.1 Stratification -- 1.2 Structure Preservation -- 2. Basic Spanish syllabification -- 2.1 Minimal onset -- 2.2 Onset maximization -- 2.3 Cyclic effects -- 2.4 Cancellation of cyclic effects -- 3. Evidence compatible with a single evaluation -- 4. /s/ aspiration evidence for multiple evaluation -- 5. Onset /i/ evidence for multiple evaluation -- 5.1 Word-bounded consonantalization -- 5.2 Cyclic effects -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- DURATIONAL ASYMMETRIES AND THE THEORY OF QUANTITY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Durational (a)symmetries in 'VC sequences: Latin and Romance -- 2.1 "Duration rhythm" in Italian 'VC sequences -- 2.2 Quantity in Latin, Italian and Spanish -- 3. Comparative consequences of the 'VC domain beyond Romance -- 3.1 Quantity distribution in Germanic languages -- 3.2 'VC domain durational (a)symmetry in Icelandic -- 3.3 Constraints and enhancement in Italian and Icelandic -- 3.4 Marsican is like Icelandic.

4. The VC hypothesis: (a)symmetries, rhythm, and the computation of duration -- 4.1 Concrete evidence for the VC hypothesis -- 4.2 Phonological viability and projections of the VC hypothesis -- 4.3 The calculus of temporal distribution in Italian at phonetic interface -- 4.4 Modeling (a)symmetries -- References -- WHAT LENITION AND FORTITION TELL US ABOUT GALLO-ROMANCE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. CVCV and the Coda Mirror -- 2.1 Adjacency vs. positional effects: the fate of Latin obstruents in French -- 2.2 Strong positions enjoy a uniform identity: the Coda Mirror -- 3. The Gallo-Romance trouble with TR clusters: colubra -- 3.1 TR was already ambiguous in Latin -- 3.2 Self-contradictory evidence from the (Gallo-)Romance evolution of Latin TR clusters -- 3.3 Solutions offered in the literature -- 4. C+j sequences in Gallo-Romance -- 5. TR is an affricate: Gallo-Romance epenthesis cam(e)ra > chambre -- 5.1 Gallo-Romance epenthesis: well-known facts -- 5.2 Syllabic units do not fall from heaven -- 5.3 Gallo-Romance "epenthesis": strengthening, not a "bad contact" -- 5.4 Parasitic r and metathesis -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- THE LAZY FRENCHMAN'S APPROACH TO THE SUBJUNCTIVE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Referential Approach -- 2.1 Reference to Individuals -- 2.2 Reference to Worlds -- 3. The French Subjunctive as a Semantic Default -- 3.1 Subjunctive vs. Imperative -- 3.2 Subjunctive vs. Infinitive -- 3.3 Subjunctive vs. Modally Interpreted Past Tense -- 4. The Indicative -- 4.1 Basic Analysis -- 4.2 Minimal Pairs -- 4.3 Hope vs. Want -- 4.4 Counterfactual reasoning and emotives -- 5. Extension: The German Konjunktiv I as a Reportive Indicative -- References -- VOWEL CENTRALIZATION IN ROMANIAN VERBS OF SLAVIC ORIGIN -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The regular sound change -- 3. Spread of the urî-pattern -- 4. Explanatory attempts -- 4.1 Analogical extension.

4.2 Metaphony/vowel harmony -- 4.3 Borrowing of the vowel with the verb -- 4.4 Borrowing of trilled or "fortis" /r/ -- 5. Exploitation of existing structures to mark loanwords -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- APPENDIX: Etymologies of 112 verbs in -ri -- ON THE RUMANIAN kt > pt SHIFT -- 1. How to describe the phenomenon? -- 1.1 About the substratum -- 1.2 Two possible descriptions -- 1.3 Two possible analyses: melodic influence or weakening. -- 2. Coda weakness in world languages -- 2.1 Coda weakness in the KT>PT shift -- 2.2 Coda weakening in Romance languages and in Rumanian -- 3. Melodic hypothesis -- 3.1 Underspecification and unlikely coronal influence -- 3.2 Nandris (1963, 1971): K > P before anterior consonant -- 3.3 On final "coda": vocalic arguments in favor of final onset -- 4. From weakness to weakening -- 4.1 Underspecification and unlikely coronal influence -- 4.2 Philological contribution -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- EVIDENCE FOR A CUE-BASED THEORY OF LANGUAGE CHANGE AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The null object in Brazilian Portuguese -- 3. Factoring the data -- 3.1 Diachronic facts -- 3.2 The acquisition of the null object -- 4. Null as ellipsis -- 5. Final Remarks -- References -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX -- The series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.