ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTIC THEORY 1999 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- INTRODUCTION -- Table of contents -- ON THE NATURE OF WH-PHRASES -WORD ORDER AND WH-IN-SITU EVIDENCE FROM PORTUGUESE, FRENCH, HUNGARIAN AND TETUM -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Wh-questions - the data -- 2. The internal structure of wh-phrases -- 3. Licensing wh-questions and word order -the proposal -- 4. Hungarian -- 5. Tetum -- References -- NEGATIVE CONCORD AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF QUANTIFIERS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Negative Concord: empirical observations -- 2. A Constraint-based Account -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- CLAUSE STRUCTURE, SUBJECT POSITIONS AND VERB MOVEMENT ABOUT THE POSITION OF SEMPRE IN EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Clause Structure in EP, the position of sempre and Verb movement -- 2. Some notes on the confirmative meaning of sempre -- 3. Sentence Structure in BP, verb movement and the nature of verbal agreement -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- ON THE MULTIPLE EXPRESSION OF NEGATION IN ROMANCE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The multiple expression problem -- 2. Negation within the clause -- 3. Expressing negation within the clause: Principle 1 -- 4. Recursivity of negation within the predicate argument domain: Principle 2 -- 5. Neg-first: Principle 3 -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- PROPERTY DENOTING OBJECTS IN IDIOMATIC CONSTRUCTIONS -- 1.Thedata -- 2. Head approach unified with phrase structure -- 3. Main general theses -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- ON THE RELATION OF PRIORITY BETWEEN CAUSATIVE AND INCHOATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Causative/ inchoative alternations in Italian: a brief sketch -- 2. Verb classification -- 3. Three classes of alternating verbs: an analysis -- References -- SPANISH EXCLAMATIVES AND THE INTERPRETATION OF THE LEFT PERIPHERY -- 0. Introduction.

1. Spanish root exclamatives -- 2. General properties -- 3. Verbal root exclamatives -- 4. C exclamatives -- 5. Adv/A/P exclamatives -- 6. Det exclamatives -- 7. WH Exclamatives -- 8. The Semantics of exclamatives -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- UNACCUSATIVE INVERSION IN FRENCH -- 0. Introduction -- Part I. An unaccusative construction -- 1. Comparison between stylistic and unaccusative inversions -- 2. An unaccusative construction -- 3. Conclusion -- Part II. Against postulating a chain in unaccusative inversion -- 1. Control of participial en-adjunct, infinitival suns-adjunct -- 2. Agreement -- 3. En pronominalization -- 4. Conclusion -- Part III. An HPSG analysis -- 1. Definition of the unaccusative verb -- 2. The raising verb selecting an unaccusative verb -- Conclusion -- References -- LOCATIVE AND LOCATUM VERBS REVISITED EVIDENCE FROM ROMANCE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Three semantic approaches: Pinker (1989), Jackendoff (1990), and Labelle (1992a/b) -- 2. Hale and Keyset's (1998) lexical relational analysis revisited -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- NEGATIVE CONCORD AND THE MINIMALIST APPROACH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Negative Concord, N-words and underspecified polarity items -- 2. The Spec-Head approaches to Negative Concord -- 3. A proposal on the syntax of Negative Concord -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- FREE RELATIVES AS DEFECTIVE WH-ELEMENTS EVIDENCE FROM THE NORTH-WESTERN ITALIAN DIALECTS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The data of the AIS (1919-1926) -- 2. The distal demonstrative as wh-element in some Northern Italian varieties -- 3. Quello che in standard Italian -- 4. The Ligurian dialects -- 5. The wh-item kwe in the Piedmontese dialects -- 6. French quoi -- 7. A feature matrix for wh-demonstratives -- 8. Summary -- References -- TEMPORAL EXISTENTIAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN ROMANCE -- 0. Introduction.

1. Romance temporal existential constructions -- 2. Two types of temporal constructions -- 3. Concluding remarks -- References -- FRENCH NE IN NON-VERBAL CONTEXTS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Two types of negative marker -- 2. The problems -- 3. NEG-raising and modals -- 4. The proposal -- 5. Summary -- References -- FRENCH NEGATIVE SENTENCES WITH AVANT 'BEFORE'-PHRASES AND JUSQU'À 'UNTIL'-PHRASES -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The syntactic difference between 'avant'-phrases and 'jusqu'à'-phrases and its semantic effects -- 2. Negative 'avant'-sentences -- 3. Negative 'jusqu'à'-sentences -- 4. Pragmatic effects -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- DECOMPOSING THE NEG-CRITERION -- 1. The Neg-Criterion -- 2. Proposal -- 3. Italian -- 4. West Flemish -- 5. Other languages -- 6. Conclusion -- References.