Table of contents
Prefacev
Parenthetical null topic constructions in Romance1
Syntax and semantics of split questions15
Discontinuous wh-constituents in Brazilian Portuguese29
Interpretive deficit? Evidence from the future tense in L2 Spanish43
Subjects and wh-questions: Some new generalizations57
Rhythmic constraints on the distribution of schwa in French79
Investigating phrasing levels in French: Is there a difference between nuclear and prenuclear accents?93
Expletives, number and language change107
Performative verbs in Spanish monolingual and bilingual colonial court documents121
Negative concord and double negation: The Romanian puzzle135
Sub-extraction from subjects: A phase theory account149
Inversion in wh-questions in child Romance and child English163
Deviance in early child bilingualism177
Topicalization in European and Brazilian Portuguese199
A variation study of verb types and subject position: Verbs of light and sound emission213
Macro events and 'aspect shift' in Spanish227
Online processing of gender agreement in low proficient English-Spanish late bilinguals241
Challenging the Person Case Constraint: Evidence from Romanian255
Agree and existential constructions269
Basic melodic contours in Majorcan Catalan: Shape and alignments of pitch movements in declaratives283
Perceptual properties of palatalization in Romanian297
A compositional analysis of manner-of-motion verbs in Italian311
Index of terms and concepts329
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