FEATURES AND INTERFACES IN ROMANCE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- PREFACE -- SEEMINGLY ERGATIVE AND ERGATIVELY SEEMING -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Case-marking in Basque -- 2. The non-transitive nature of irudi verbs -- 3. Explaining ergative without absolutive -- 4. Irudi verbs and finite complements: a case for copy-raising -- 5. Final remarks -- REFERENCES -- ON THE WEIGHT OF LIGHT PREDICATES* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. 'Heavier' light verbs -- 3. 'Lighter'light verbs -- 4. Light nouns -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON THE INTERPRETATION OF FOCUS FEATURES -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The distribution of temporal adverbs and focus -- 2. On the different semantic properties of siempre -- 3. The syntax of cleft-focus -- 4. The analysis of focus association -- REFERENCES -- "DEQUEÍSMO" IN SPANISH AND THE STRUCTURE AND FEATURES OF CP -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Que and de que in Spanish: A brief statement of facts -- 1.1 Que -- 2. Case is not the reason for "queismo" and "dequeismo" -- 3. On the origin and derivation of de que sentences -- 3.1 On the status of út -- 4. Two types of complement sentences and the "insertion" of de -- REFERENCES -- EVALUATIVE SUFFIXATION IN SPANISH AND THE SYNTAX OF DERIVATIONAL PROCESSES* -- REFERENCES -- THE LOWER OPERATOR POSITION WITH PARASITIC GAPS* -- 0. The No C-Command Condition -- 1. Subjacency effects on parasitic gaps -- 3. Puzzle: the lower operator 0i is not in SPEC(CP) -- 4. The lower operator is in SPEC(IP) or SPEC(DP) -- 5. Why parasitic gaps must be DPs -- 6. The sequence of T-model operations on a cyclic domain -- 7. A generalized definition of Subject -- 8. Extending the analysis to long distance movement -- REFERENCES -- NP MOVEMENT AND ADJECTIVE POSITION IN THE DP PHASES -- 1. Adjective position and adjective types.

2. Prenominal adjectives in the NP shell and D phases -- 3. Postnominal adjectives -- 4. Adjective position, unselective binding, and specificity -- 5. More quantificational features -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- REFLECTIONS ON A PHONOLOGICAL GRAMMAR OF SPANISH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Spanish [ſ]≠[r], the basics -- 2. A closer look at PGS -- 3. The generative consensus -- 4. Taking stock -- 5. Conclusions and directions for future research -- REFERENCES -- THE LONG FALL AN INTONATIONAL MELODY OF ARGENTINIAN SPANISH* -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Characteristics of the long fall -- 2. Gathering the data -- 2.1 The informant -- 2.2 The stories: a brief synopsis -- 2.3 The examples -- 3. Acoustic correlates of the long fall -- 3.1 The fall -- 3.2 The increased duration -- 4. The meaning and source of the long fall -- REFERENCES -- ON THE POSITION OF PREPOSED PPS IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Locative inversion in English -- 2. PP preposing in Spanish -- 3. Some differences between topics and preverbal subjects in Spanish -- REFERENCES -- THE MORPHOLOGIZATION AND GRAMMATICALIZATION OF FRENCH LIAISON -- 1. Introduction and data -- 2. Morphologization -- 3. Grammaticalization -- 4. Conclusion: a theory of morphocentricity -- REFERENCES -- DETERMINING THE ACQUISITION OF DETERMINERS ON THE INNATENESS OF FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES* -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The debate on the functions of "fillers" -- 2. Data: Analysis of a Spanish child's prenominal "fillers" -- 3. Discussion: The relevance of the Romance data -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- SONORITY AS A PRIMITIVE PHONOLOGICAL FEATURE EVIDENCE FROM SPANISH COMPLEX ONSET PHONOTACTICS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Background -- 2. The structure of Spanish complex onsets -- 3. An analysis of Spanish complex onsets -- 3.1 Harris (1983) -- 4. An alternative approach to Spanish complex onsets.

5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- WEAK SUBJECT PRONOUNS IN CARIBBEAN SPANISH AND XP PIED-PIPING -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Weak Pronouns and Adverbs -- 2. Interrogatives -- 3. Extensions: The infinitive -- REFERENCES -- THE REALIZATION OF NUMBER IN ITALIAN AND SPANISH -- 0. Introduction. -- 1. Latin plural inflection: coronality -- 2. From Latin to Italian and Spanish plurals: typological shift and its effects -- 3. Morphological projections and their pronunciation -- 4. Italian plurals: close encounter with morphology -- 5. Spanish plurals: athematic C-stems -- 6. Catalexis and prosodie integrity -- 7. Toward an integrated theory of the expression of number -- REFERENCES -- DISCOURSE TOPIC CONSTRAINTS ON LEFT DISLOCATED SUBJECTS AND CLLD STRUCTURES -- 0. Discourse topic and pronominal structures -- 1. The position of overt DP subjects and objects and their relationship to agreement morphology -- 2. Minimality effects at the discourse level -- 3. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE PUZZLE OF RESTRICTIVE RELATIVE CLAUSES WITH CONJOINED DP ANTECEDENTS* -- 0. The Puzzle -- 1. Previous attempts -- 1.1 McCawley (1982, 1988) and Right Node Raising -- 1.2 Bianchi (1997) and the head-raising hypothesis -- 2. The proposal -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- DEFINITE DETERMINERS IN FRENCH AND SPANISH FEATURES AND EXTRACTION* -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Some correlations -- 1.1. Determiner agreement -- 1.2. Inalienable possession constructions -- 1.3. Generic definite determiners -- 1.4. Non-argument clitics -- 2. The expletive determiner, AgrD features and subextraction -- 3. Subextraction from definite DPs in English -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- NAME INDEX.