GRAMMATICAL THEORY AND ROMANCE LANGUAGES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- PARTICIPIAL CLAUSES IN BULGARIANITALIAN AND SPANISHARGUMENT STRUCTURE, AGREEMENT AND CASE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. A typology of ΡAs -- 2. Feature specification and derivations -- REFERENCES -- EDGE EFFECTS AND UNSTRESSED SYLLABLES IN SPANISH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Stress patterns of Spanish nouns -- 3. A metrical account of Spanish stress -- 4. Constraints on nonmetrical stress -- 4.1 Syllable weight. -- 4.2 Edge biases. -- 4.3 Underlying prominence. -- 4.4 A new taxonomy. -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- 6. Appendix: Equations -- REFERENCES -- THE AMBIGUITY OF THE ITALIAN PRESENT PERFECT -- 1. The problem -- 2. The ambiguity hypothesis -- 3. Tense and mood -- REFERENCES -- THE DISTRIBUTION OF À AND DE IN TOUGHCONSTRUCTIONS IN FRENCH -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 P(arasitic)-gaps -- 1.2 Tense effect -- 1.3 Reconstruction -- 1.4 Condition C -- 1.5 Clitic climbing and object shift in Old French -- 2. A structural distinction between à and de -- 3. An analysis of TM -- 3.1 Tough predicates as disjunctive subcategorizers -- 3.2 Clausal theta-predication -- 3.3 Modes of predication are parasitic on structure -- 3.4 Α-Chain, Case and theta-role saturation -- REFERENCES -- PROMINENCE VS. RHYTHMTHE PREDICTABILITY OF STRESS IN ROMANIAN -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Primary stress -- 2.1 Nouns and adjectives -- 2.2 Verbs -- 2.3 Summary -- 3. Secondary stress -- 3.1 The basic pattern -- 3.2 Possible analyses of secondary stress -- 4. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- ON THE CONFIGURATIONAL NATURE OF ADJECTIVALMODIFICATION -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Theoretical background -- 2. The position of adjectives and their interpretation -- 2.1 Adjectives and adverbs: some significant analogies -- 2.2 Some restrictions on the interpretation of adjectives.

3. Towards an explanation of adjective placement -- REFERENCES -- SYNTACTIC CONFIGURATIONS AND REFERENCE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Two impersonal SI's in Italian -- 2. Passive intransitives and the argument-status of PRO -- 3. Nominative Case assignment in Romanian nonfinite clauses -- 4. Control and middle-passive si -- REFERENCES -- THE SCOPE OF UNIVERSAL QUANTIFIERS IN SPANISHINTERROGATIVES -- 1. The Kartunnen-Peters contrast -- 2. The scope of cada -- 3. Matrix and embedded interrogatives -- 3.1. Matrix questions -- 3.2. Embedded questions -- 4. The role of the wh-phrase -- 5. Quantifier absorption and quantifier scope -- REFERENCES -- THE SYNTAX AND MORPHOLOGY OF CLASS MARKERSUPPRESSION IN SPANISH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Adjective interpretation and class markers in Spanish -- 3. Spanish word structure: syntax and morpholog -- 4. Class marker suppression in Spanish -- 5. APPENDIX: The morphological categorization of verb forms -- REFERENCES -- THE PROSODIG ENVIRONMENT OF S-WEAKENINGIN ARGENTINIAN SPANISH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. The preservation of final /s/ -- 4. Prevocalic word-final /s/ -- 5. Other rules sensitive to pause -- 6. S-weakening as a P2 rule -- REFERENCES -- PERFECTIVE AUXILIARIES, POSSESSIONAND EXISTENCE IN ROMANCE -- 0. Introduction. -- 1. The syntax of possession and existence -- 1.1. Possessive HAVE -- 1.2. Romance existential predicates -- 2. The syntax of perfective constructions -- REFERENCES -- GENDER AGREEMENT AND SUPPLETION IN FRENCH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Adjectival suppletion -- 2. The suppletive form as a feminine -- 2.1. Traneľs OT treatment -- 2.2. Feminine and VI contexts -- 3. The suppletive form as a masculine (unmarked) -- 3.1. Default and dependent morphemes -- 3.2. Unmarked forms in marked contexts -- 3.3. Suppletion in masculine VI contexts -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES.

TWO ISSUES IN NULL OBJECTS IN BASQUE SPANISH:MORPHOLOGICAL DECODING AND GRAMMATICAL PERMEABILITY -- 0. Introduction -- I.Null objects in Basque Spanish -- 2. Basque influence -- 3.Grammatical permeability and pre-existing structural parallelism -- 4. Desinential morphology versus clitic morphology -- 5. Morphological decoding -- REFERENCES -- ATTRIBUTIVE AND PREDICATIVE ADJECTIVE AGREEMENTIN GERMANIC AND ROMANCE & pro IDENTIFICATION -- 1. Predicative adjective agreement -- 2. Referential null subjects -- 3. Agreement as visibility control along with case -- 4. Internal structure of adjectives -- 5. The syntactic nature of predicative adjectives -- REFERENCES -- CLITIC-DOUBLED DATIVE "SUBJECTS" IN SPANISH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Clitic doubling and dative clitics -- 2. Subject doubling vs. Clitic Left Dislocation (CLLD) -- 3. DE clitics as agreement in AgrS -- 4. Consequences: Raising -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE ABSENCE OR PRESENCE OF A DECLINATIONEFFECT ON THE DESCENT OF FO PEAKS?EVIDENCE FROM MEXICAN SPANISH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Experimental design and measurements -- 2.0 FO peak height -- 2.1 Initial rise as evidence of constant pitch range -- 2.2 The non-effect of phrasal length on peak height -- 2.3 The distance between pitch accents: an effect on peak height? -- 2.4 Downstep patterns -- 3.0 Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- WORD ORDER, PREDICATION AND AGREEMENT IN DPS INSPANISH, SOUTHERN QUECHUA AND SOUTHERNANDEAN BILINGUAL SPANISH -- 0. Introduction. -- 1.0 The syntactic properties of restrictive adjectives andrestrictive relative clauses in SS, SQ and SABS -- 1.1 Canonical word order -- 1.3 Stacking -- 2.0 Predicate Phrase and restrictive modification -- 2.1. Word order and noun incorporation -- 2.2 NP-modification, null Ν Ρ֊licensing and Ν Ρ-movement -- 2.3 Kayne (1994) -- 2.4 Predicate Phrase -- REFERENCES.

CLITIC OMISSION AND PARTICIPLE AGREEMENT INITALIAN CHILD LANGUAGE -- 1. Object - Past Participle agreement in Italian -- 2. Empirical inadequacies -- 3. Right dislocation and clitic drop -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- FRENCH SYLLABLE STRUCTURE:RECONSIDERING THE STATUS OF THE ONSET -- 0. Introduction -- 1.0 Restrictions on the minimal word in French -- 2.0 Apparent weight-sensitivity in French onsets -- 2.1 Stress perception -- 2.2 Exceptional abbreviations, acronyms, and Verlan forms -- 3.0 Language games and syllable structure -- 3.1 Verlan -- 3.2 Loucherbem (Plénat 1985) and Javenáis {Plenat 1991 -- 3.3 Hypocoristics -- 4.0 Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- MERGE AND CLITICIZATION IN OLD ROMANCEFUTURES/CONDITIONALS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Deriving split futures -- 2. The elitie cluster interpretation -- 3. The position of elities in the derivation -- 4. Temporal vs. modal interpretation -- 5. The rise and fall of split futures -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- TWO TYPES OF UNACCUSATIVES:EVIDENCE FROM A NORTHERN ITALIAN DIALECT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Semantic classes and syntactic structure -- 2.1 Evidence from Borgomanerese for two classes of unaccusatives -- 2.2 The structural difference between LUs and non-LUs -- 3. The LU construction in Italian? -- 4. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- AN EXPLETIVE NEGATION WHICH IS NOT SO REDUNDANT -- 0. Introduction -- 2 Finché with negated A and B -- 3. Complementing only one interval -- 4 . Expletive negation -- 4.1 The disambiguating effect of negation -- 4.2 Negative concord -- 4.3 Cooccurrence with più -- 4.4 Infinitivals -- 5. Summary and conclusion -- REFERENCES -- EXCEPTIONALITY IN OPTIMALITY THEORY AND FINALCONSONANTS IN FRENCH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Proposal within Optimality Theory -- 1.1. Analysis outline -- 1.2. Assumptions about the representation of final consonants in French -- 1.3 Constraints.

1.4. Principles regarding constraint ranking -- 1.5. Analysis -- 1.5.1. The central role of ONSET -- 1.5.2. Prevocalic liaison context -- 1.5.3. Preconsonantal liaison context -- 1.5.4. At the pause -- 2. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE NATURE OF THE SUBJUNCTIVE ANDTHE FORMAL GRAMMAR OF OBVIATION -- 0. Introduction. -- 1. The nature of the Subjunctive -- 1.1 The problem -- 1.2 Modality and the representation of the subjunctive -- 1.3 The tense of subjunctives -- 1.4 Some empirical consequences -- 2. Obviation -- 2.1 The domain of obviation -- 2.2 Selection and feature checking -- 3. Back to the initial problem -- 4. Conclusion, extensions and residual problems -- REFERENCES -- SUBJUNCTIVE OF NEGATION AND [NEG(ATIVE)]COMPLEMENTIZERS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The [NEG]COMP Hypothesis -- 1.1. [NEGJCOMP and the subjunctive mood -- 1.2. The Basque clausal suffix -(e)nik -- 2. The [NEGJCOMP Hypothesis revisited -- 2.1. Long distance licensing and the selection of [Neg]CO MPs -- 2.2. Licensing subjunctive -- 2.3. -(E)nik and -(e)na -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF AUTHORS -- INDEX OF TERMS & CONCEPTS -- INDEX OF LANGUAGES & LANGUAGE FAMILIES.