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New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. I: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics
Edited by Chiyo Nishida and Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 275] 2006
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Polarity-Sensitive Disjunction: Spanish ni … ni1
Taking a Closer Look at Romance VN Compounds13
Beyond Descriptivism: Exaptation and Linguistic Explanation27
Do Subjects Have a Place in Spanish?51
On the Conceptual Role of Number67
The Diachronic Development of a French Indefinite Pronoun: Comparing Chacun to Auncun83
A Syntactic Analysis of Italian Deverbal-Nouns97
V-N Compounds In Italian: A Case Of Agreement in Word Formation113
A Reinterpretation of Quirky Subjects and Related Phenomena in Spanish127
Cognitive Constraints on Assertion Scope: The Case of Spoken French Parce que143
Avant que- or Avant de-Clauses: When Presupposition Gives Way to an ‘Assertive Construction’155
Null Directional Prepositions in Romanian and Spanish69
A Unified Account for the Additive and the Scalar Uses of Italian Neppure187
Default Morphology in Second Language Spanish: Missing Inflection or Underspecified Inflection?201
Early Object Omission in Child French and English213
Agreement Paradigms Across Moods and Tenses229
Italian Volerci: Lexical Verb or Functional Head?247
Restructuring of Reverse Psychological Predicate263
Subject Index279