CURRENT ISSUES IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- PREFACE -- ON BECOMING A CLITIC: THE PRENOMINAL POSSESSIVE IN ROMANCE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Latin roots -- 2. Development from Latin -- 2.1 Old French -- 2.2 Old Spanish -- 2.3 Italian -- 3. Syntactic Representation -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- PRIMARY STRESS IN SPANISH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Data -- 2. Test -- 3. Analysis -- 3.1 Lexical patterns -- 3.2 Quantity sensitivity -- 3. 3 Falling diphthongs -- 3.4 A process in change -- 4. Ternary Feet -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- SPANISH CLAUSES WITHOUT COMPLEMENTIZER -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Spanish clauses without complementizer -- 3. On the presence or absence of the CP projection -- 3.1 Topicalization -- 3.2 Wh-extraction -- 4. On the impossibility of a pre-verbal subject in complementizerless clauses -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON THE NATURE OF BARE NOUNS IN HAITIAN CREOLE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical Background -- 3. The properties of Haitian Creole bare Nouns -- 4. HC bare nouns in Chierchia's typology -- 5. Evidence for a null determiner in HC -- 6. The syntax and semantics of the Haitian Creole null D° -- REFERENCES -- TOWARDS A SYNTAX OF ADULT ROOT INFINITIVES -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Syntactic properties -- 1.1 Adverb placement -- 1.2 Left periphery -- 1.3 Clausal structure -- 2. Some differences -- 2.1 Temporal interpretation -- 2.2 Topic constructions -- 2.3 Subject properties -- 2.4 Infinitival raising -- 3. Syntactic analysis -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- RE-EXAMINING SPANISH 'RESYLLABIFICATION' -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. The Status of Spanish Prefixes -- 4. A Theoretical Analysis of Spanish Syllabification -- 5. Previous Analyses and Their Shortcomings -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON PREVERBAL SUBJECTS IN SPANISH -- 0. Introduction.

1. Spanish preverbal subjects -- 2. Evidence that preverbal subjects are not in topic position -- 3. Focus/wh-phrases -- 4. Evidence that preverbal subjects are not in focus/wh- position -- 5. Towards a solution -- 6. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- THE SEMANTICS OF SPANISH FREE RELATIVES -- 1. The morphological encoding of quantificational force -- 2. Indefinite FRs -- 3. Definite vs. universal FRs -- 4. The semantic interpretation of FRs -- REFERENCES -- SPLIT SUBJECTPRONOUN PARADIGMS: FEATURE GEOMETRY AND UNDERSPECIFICATION -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Linguistic Atlas Data -- 2. How many parameters? -- 3. Feature Geometry -- 4.Underspecification -- 4.1 The tu ~ vous split -- 5. Splitting the Geometry -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- LOCATIVE INVERSION, PP TOPICALIZATION AND THE EPP -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The transitivity restriction in English -- 2. Agr as [+D] head in Spanish -- 3. Locative subjects vs. fronted locative PPs in Spanish -- 4. PP fronting in Italian -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- CONTRAST MAINTENANCE AND INTERVOCALIC STOP LENITION IN SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE: WHEN IS IT ALRIGHT TO LENITE? -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Lenition Processes -- 2. The phonetic implementation of intervocalic stops in Spanish and Portuguese -- 3. Experimental design -- 4. Results -- 5. Conclusions -- 6. Summary -- REFERENCES -- EPENTHESIS VS. ELISION IN AFRO-IBERIAN LANGUAGE: A CONSTRAINT-BASED APPROACH TO CREOLE PHONOLOGY -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Coda consonants in Afro-Iberian language -- 2. Onset clusters in Afro-Iberian language -- 3. Treatment of Ibero-Romance onset clusters among African languages -- 4. A constraint-based analysis of Afro-Iberian epenthesis vs. elision -- 5. Representative analyses -- 6. The phonology of epenthesis/elision in pidginization and creolization -- REFERENCES -- CONTRASTIVE DISCOURSE MARKERS IN SPANISH: BEYOND CONTRAST.

1. Introduction -- 2. Methodological approach -- 3. The concept of contrast -- 4. First level of analysis -- 4.1 Group #1 -- 4.2 Group #2 -- 4.3 Group #3 -- 5. Second level of analysis -- 5.1 Group #1 -- 5.2 Group #2 -- 5.3 Group #3 -- 6. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- CODA OBSTRUENTS AND LOCAL CONSTRAINT CONJUNCTION IN NORTH-CENTRAL PENINSULAR SPANISH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Coda obstruents in north-central Peninsular Spanish -- 2. Local conjunction -- 3. A constraint-based analysis -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- BARE NOUNS AND THE MORPHOSYNTAX OF NUMBER -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The Nominal Mapping Parameter -- 1.2 Argumentai Bare NPs and the singular/plural asymmetry -- 1.3 Bare nouns and the predicate/argument asymmetry -- 2. Deriving the variation: the morphosyntax of number -- 2.1 The Free Agr Parameter -- 2.2 Applying free Agr to NP -- 2.3 Bare predicates and lack of number -- 2.4 Semantic number effects -- 3. Bare arguments and lack of number -- 3.1 Bare NP arguments in Brazilian Portuguese -- 3.2 Evidence for Lack of Number in Bare Singulars -- 3.3 Semantic number effects in bare arguments -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- NON-LOGICAL IF -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Empirical Domain -- 1.1 Conditional interpretation -- 1.2 Syntactic status -- 2. Proposal -- 2.1 Mapping onto quantificational structures -- 2.2 A-Quantifiers -- 2.3 D-Quantifiers -- 3. The Role of Factivity -- 4. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- SELECTING ATOMIC CELLS FROM TEMPORAL DOMAINS: FIXING PARAMETERS IN ROMANCE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The syntactic analysis -- 3. The mechanism -- 3.1 Something about nouns -- 3.2 Applying the mechanism to the PIC, the PR and the GC -- 4. Some consequences -- 4.1 The aspectual markers cannot operate on atoms -- 4.2 The aspectual markers operate on sets -- 4.3 The phonological realization of the type shifter.

4.4 C as a type shifter vs. ordinary Cs -- 5. Analytic or synthetic -- 6. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- NON-HOMORGANIC NASAL CLUSTERS IN NORTHERN ITALIAN DIALECTS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Data -- 2. Analysis -- 2.1 Feature Geometry -- 2.2 Optimality Theory -- 3. Non-homorganicity: Loiano -- 4. Vowel Epenthesis/Non-Homorganicity: Vediceto -- 5. Assimilation/Consonant Epenthesis vs. Non-Homorganicity: Brisighella -- 6.Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- ROMANIAN NOMINAL STRUCTURE, PROFORMS, AND GENITIVE CASE CHECKING -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Genitive Article as a Syntactically Complex Pronominal -- 3. Genitive Case-Assignment -- 4.Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ADJECTIVAL AGREEMENT WITHIN DP WITHOUT FEATURE MOVEMENT -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Chomsky (1995) -- 2. Kayne(1994) -- 3. Predicates and attributes -- 4. Against a feature movement analysis of attributival agreement -- 5. Attributival agreement as a consequence of theta-identification -- 6. Romance versus Germanic -- 7. Attributive adjectives -- 8. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- A CONSTRAINT-BASED ANALYSIS OF INTRASPEAKER VARIATION: VOCALIC EPENTHESIS IN VIMEU PICARD -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Epenthesis in Vimeu Picard -- 3. The Prosodic Phonology of Vimeu Picard -- 4. A Theory of Prosodic Licensing -- 5. Licensing of Consonants in Vimeu Picard -- 5.1 Direct Licensing -- 5.2 Indirect Licensing -- 6. Intraspeaker Variation -- 6.1 Variable Triggering of Epenthesis Phrase-Initially -- 6.2 Variable Triggering of Epenthesis Phrase-Medially -- 7. Variation as a Result of Competition between Epenthesis and Indirect Licensing -- 8. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- DATA SOURCES -- ASPECT IN THE PREPOSITIONAL SYSTEM OF ROMANCE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The dative P and Romance have and be -- 2.1 Romance Participles: the theoretical issue -- 2.2 The relevance of the prepositional content of have.

3. Spanish: the dative preposition with accusative objects -- 4. have, be and Participles -- 5. Participial Agreement versus Clitic Doubling -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- A UNIFIED ANALYSIS OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN ENINE -- 1. Problems for a unified analysis of en/ne-cliticization -- 2. The clitic and its double -- 2.1 Categorial types as epiphenomena -- 2.2 Deriving categorial features for en/ne -- 2.2.1 Specifying pro for category features -- 2.2.2 Attraction of pro and specification of en/ne -- 3. Unity and diversity -- 3.1 Morphological differences -- 3.2 Syntactic differences -- 3.3 Interpretative differences -- 4. Concluding remarks -- REFERENCES -- VARIATION IN SPANISH ASPIRATION AND PROSODIC BOUNDARY CONSTRAINTS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Prosodie Word Structure -- 2. Constraints for aspiration -- 3. Constraint Ranking -- 3.1 Buenos Aires Argentinian -- 3.2 Rio Negro Argentinian and Caribbean II -- 3.3 Caribbean I -- 3 4 Implications -- 4. Comparison with alternatives -- 4.1 Rule Based Analyses -- 4.2 OT Analyses -- 5. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- GENERAL INDEX.