ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND MODERN LINGUISTIC THEORY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- FOREWORD -- Table of contents -- CREOLE INTERFERENCEIN VENEZUELAN SPANISH THE ABSENCE OF SER/ESTAR* -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Methodology -- i) Copulative use: -- ii) Existential use: -- iii) Use as an auxiliary: -- 2. Analysis -- 3. Possible explanations: Ø S/E, a creole feature? -- 3.1 Zero copula in Spanish-based creoles -- 3.2 Zero copula in English-based creoles -- 3.3 New insights: Ø S/E, a mesolectal feature? -- 5. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- LINGUISTIC CORRELATIONS BETWEEN SUBJECTS OF ONE-ARGUMENT VERBS AND SUBJECTS OF MORE-THAN-ONE-ARGUMENT VERBS IN SPOKEN SPANISH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Antecedents and basic theoretical notions -- 2. Methodology -- 3. The analysis -- 3.1 The One Lexical Argument Constraint (OLAC) -- 3.2 The Non-lexical Argument Constraint (NAC) -- 3.3 The Preferred Argument Structure of Spanish -- 4. PAS and informatian flow -- 4.1 The given A constraint -- 4.2 Word order -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- PSYCH CONSTRUCTIONS AND LINKING TO CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The problem -- 2. An alternative analysis -- 2.1 Two inadequacies of the standard analysis -- 2.2 What is a Psych construction? -- 3. Syntactic properties of Psych constructions -- 3.1 Binding of a reflexive direct object -- 3.2 Backward binding of a reflexive -- 4. Conclusion -- 5. Appendix: Redundancy Rules as an Alternative Analysis -- REFERENCES -- SEMANTICS OF CONTROL, TENSE SEQUENCING AND DISJOINT REFERENCE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Castañeda's Propositional vs. Practical Thinking -- 3. Infinitive Complement-taking Verbs -- 4. Practitional Predicates, Tense Sequencing and Disjoint Reference -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN MOLESE, A SOUTHEAST ITALIAN DIALECT SIMPLIFICATION OR DECAY? -- 1. Introduction.

2. Maiden's displaced metaphony -- 3.0 Molese conservative paradigms -- 3.1 Nouns -- 3.2 Verbs -- 3.5 Summary -- 4.0 Molese innovative paradigms -- 4.1 Nouns -- 4.2 Verbs -- 4.3 Summary -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON THE SEMANTICS OF SUBJUNCTIVE COMPLEMENTS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The semantic basis of mood distribution -- 2. Previous approaches -- A. Assertive/non-assertive predicates -- B. Direction of fit -- 3. Toward an analysis -- 3.1 Individual anchors -- 3.2 Extensional and Intensional Anchoring -- 3.3 Direction of fit and intensional/extensional anchoring -- 3.4 Extensional and intensional reference -- 3.5 Intensional anchoring and the subjunctive -- REFERENCES -- ON REFERENCE IN COPULAR CONTEXTS -- 1. The Problem -- 2. NP2 as a Referring Expression -- 3. NP2 as a Predicate -- 4. The Nature of Identity -- 5. The Syntax of Equative Copular Sentences -- 6. The Interpretation of Names in French -- 7. Solving the Problem -- 8. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON THE ECONOMY OF ROMANCE NONLEXICAL DATIVES -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Non-Argument Status of Nonlexical Datives -- 3. Source of Nonlexical Datives -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE SPANISH POSSESSIVE DATIVE CONSTRUCTION θ-ROLE ASSIGNMENT AND PROPER GOVERNMENT -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The θ-criterion -- 2. Proper government -- 3. The level of representation/the nature of [e] -- REFERENCES -- THREE PROBLEMS IN ITALIAN INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Final -i -- 3. 1p -iamo -- 4. 3p -o -- 5. Overview and review -- 6. Natural morphology -- REFERENCES -- THE EVOLUTION OF COMPLEMENTS OF FRENCH CAUSATIVE AND PERCEPTION VERBS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Old and Middle French Infinitival Complements -- 2.1 Position of the NP subject of the infinitival verb -- 2.2 Case Assigned to the Subject of the Infinitival Verb -- 2.3 Object Clitic Climbing.

3. Structure of the Constructions with Causative and Perception Verbs -- REFERENCES -- ANTIPASSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN SPANISH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous characterizations of antipassives -- 3. Baker's characterization of antipassives -- 4. Theta assignment -- 5. A characterization of antipassive se -- 6. The derivation -- 7. Productivity -- 8. Antipassives vs. ergatives -- 9. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- RELEXIFICATION IN PALENQUERO -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Creole nature of P -- 2.1 Shared features: -- 2.2 Unshared features: -- 3. Relexification and conflation -- 3.1 Serial verbs -- 3.2 Pronominals -- 3.3 Negation and word order -- 3.4 Complementizers -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON CLITIC CASE ALTERNATIONS IN FRENCH CAUSATIVES -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Syntactic Component -- 2. The Pragmatic Component -- 3. A Semantic Constraint on Clitic Case Alternations -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN RAISING AND CONTROL -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The syntax of en -- 3. 'Figurative' uses, aspect, and thematic structure -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE SUBJECT OF PSYCH-VERBS AND CASE THEORY -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Non-Thematic Subject Hypothesis -- 2. Reversibility and the Mapping Principle -- 3. Minimality Barriers and Nominative Objects -- 4. The Subject of preoccupare -- 5. Summary and Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- ON SUPPLETION AND FRENCH LIAISON -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A taxonomy of liaison -- 2.1 Clear suppletive cases -- 2.2 Clear non-suppletive cases -- 2.3 Uncertain cases -- 3. A special dislocated syntactic construction -- 4. A syntactic test for suppletion -- 5. On the principled obtention of suppletion in the grammar -- 5.1 Outline of the literature on the treatment of bon -- 5.2 Proposal for the treatment of bon -- 5.3 Discussion of competing treatments -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES.

SUBJECTS IN SPANISH CAUSATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Spanish Causatives -- 2. Subcategorization -- 3. Case -- 4. Clitic Climbing in Causatives -- 4.1 Argument status of clitics -- 5. Direct vs. Indirect Causation -- 5.1 Case-alternation and Semantic Interpretation in Causatives -- 6. Psych Verbs -- REFERENCES -- ON THE STATUS OF (VERBAL) TRACES IN FRENCH THE CASE OF STYLISTIC INVERSION -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Stylistic Inversion -- 2. Object NPs νs WH-trace s -- 3. Against rightward movement in Stylistic Inversion -- 3.1 The VP-internal subject analysis -- 3.2 The absence of direct objects with Stylistic Inversion -- 4. Verbal traces as non-case assigners and the Minimality Condition on Case Assignment -- 4.1 Case assignment to the subject ΝΡ -- 4.2 Compound tenses -- 5. Some remaining problems -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECTS IN OLD SPANISH CONFLICTS BETWEEN TYPOLOGY, SYNTAX, AND DYNAMICS -- 1. The problem -- 2. Wackernagel's Law -- 3. Typology -- 4. Formal solutions -- 5. Two clitic linearization principles -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- SUR LES ARTICLES LE/LES GÉNÉRIQUES OU L'ÉNIGME DU COSMONAUTE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Généricité et spécificité -- 2. Les articles dits 'génériques' -- 3. L'opposition 'massif/comptable' -- 3.1 Domaine de la perception -- 3.2 Domaine de la représentation -- 4. Ladichotomie'singulier/pluriel' -- 4.1 Premier problème -- 4.1 Deuxième problème -- REFERENCES -- TENSE, V-MOVEMENT, AND WH-IN-SITU -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tense -- 2.1 V-movement -- 2.2 Wh-Movement and the Temporal Subject -- 3. Wh-Interrogative Interpretation -- 4. Vacuous Movement -- 5. WH- in-situ: Multiple questions -- 5.1 VP-internal WH-interrogatives -- 5.2 VP-external Interrogatives -- 6. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF AUTHORS -- INDEX OF TERMS & CONCEPTS -- INDEX OF LANGUAGES & LANGUAGE FAMILIES.