THEORETICAL ANALYSES ON ROMANCE LANGUAGES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE -- Table of contents -- GENITIVES IN AROMANIAN DIALECTS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The definite determiner in Aromanian -- 3. Aromanian genitives -- 4. Proposal -- 5. Proper names and genitive assignment -- 6. Aromanian vs. Rumanian -- 7. XP-movement vs. N-to-D raising -- 8. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON OPTIONALITY IN THE MINIMALIST PROGRAM AND OLD FRENCH WORD ORDER -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Old French word order -- 2. Optionality in the Minimalist Program and Old French word order -- 3. Optionality and language change -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PRAGMATIC AND SYNTACTIC KNOWLEDGE IN THE FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OF SPANISH NULL AND OVERT PRONOMINALS -- Introduction -- Method -- General results -- Comparison of contexts in which null and lexical pronominals occur -- Development in the interaction between syntax and pragmatics -- Dialectal variation -- Pronoun overuse -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- THE MYTH OF EQUIVALENCE WHERE TWO LIGHTS DO NOT MAKE A LONG -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The uneven foot in French -- 2. The uneven foot in Italian -- 3. Emergent prosodic structures -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- SOME REMARKS ON THE LATIN CASE SYSTEM AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN ROMANCE -- 0.Introduction -- 1. Case as a morphological suffix -- 2.1 Case features and syncretism -- 3. The latin case system -- 4. The evolution of the latin case system -- 5. Account of the evolution of the latin case system -- 6. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- THE WH-FEATURE AND THE SYNTAX OF RESTRICTIVE AND NON-RESTRICTIVE RELATIVES I N FRENCH AND ENGLISH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Appositive relatives are restrictive -- 2. Wh-feature value and variation -- 3. Some distinct properties of appositive relatives -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES.

A CONSTRAINT-BASED APPROACH TO SPANISH SPIRANTIZATION -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous analyses -- 3. The analysis -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- A SYNTACTIC ACCOUNT OF PERFECTIVE AND POSSESSIVE VERB SELECTION I N ROMANCE LANGUAGES -- Introduction -- 1. Perfective tenses -- 2. Auxiliary 'have' -- 3. Possessive 'have' -- 4. A uxiliary selection -- 5. Learnability issues -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- TWO TYPES OF PREDICATE MODIFICATION EVIDENCE FROM THE ARTICULATED ADJECTIVES OF ROMANIAN -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Determiners -- 2. The predicate structure of adjectives -- 3. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- ALIGNMENT AND SONORITY IN THE SYLLABLE STRUCTURE OF LATE LATIN AND GALLO-ROMANCE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The data -- 3. Analysis -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- LOCATIVE AND TEMPORAL WEAK PROFORMS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Weak and strong proforms -- 2. Syntactic and semantic properties -- 3. The semantics of weak proforms -- 4. History of locative and temporal proforms -- 5. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- OPTIMALIZING IBERIAN CLITIC SEQUENCES -- 1. The problem -- 2. A more motivated OT account -- 3. Variable sequences in Central Catalan -- 4. The LLL constraint and underspeciflcation -- 5. Other constraints on clitic sequences -- 6. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROCLITICS AND ENCLITICS IN MIDDLE FRENCH -- 1. Subject pronouns in Old and Middle French -- 2. Subject pronouns as syntactic clitics -- 3. Syntactic changes and grammaticalization in Middle French -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- LICENSING AND IDENTIFICATION OF NULL CATEGORIES IN SPANISH NON-NATIVE GRAMMARS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Null arguments in adult language -- 3. Null arguments in child language -- 4. Null subjects in non-native grammars -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON THE SPELLING DISTINCTION B VS. U/V AND THE STATUS OF SPIRANTIZATION IN OLD SPANISH.

1. Introduction -- 2. Some basic historical f acts about SPIR -- 3. Arguments against the SSPC hypothesis -- 4. Towards an alternative scenario -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- PPS WITHOUT PS IN SPOKEN RIOPLATENSE SPANISH -- Introduction -- Hypothesis -- Contexts -- The establishment of the relationship -- REFERENCES -- THE INVERSION CONSTRUCTION IN INTERROGATIVES IN SPANISH AND CATALAN -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The obligatoriness of inversion in Interrogatives in Spanish and Catalan -- 3. Conclusion -- Appendix -- REFERENCES -- SCALAR EFFECTS IN ITALIAN METAPHONY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metaphonic alternations -- 3. The Articulatory Model -- 4. The Dependency and Complementarity Model -- 5. The Hierarchical Model -- 6. The Incremental Constriction Model -- 7. Concluding remarks -- REFERENCES -- INDEXOF AUTHORS -- INDEX OF TERMS & CONCEPTS -- INDEX OF LANGUAGES & LANGUAGE FAMILIES.