Advances in Romance Linguistics

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Parametric Change: Empty Subjects in Old French -- Restructured Compounds and Romance Causatives -- En-Chain -- Problems with Past Participles Agreement in French and Italian Dialects -- Consonant Strength in the Romance Dialects of the Pyrenees -- The Case for a Syntax-dependent Postlexical Module in Spanish Phonology -- The Middle and the Pseudo-Middle in French -- ECP Effects at LF in Spanish -- El acent? dislocad? - pues cantad? - castellan?: On Explaining Stress-Shift in Song-Texts from Spanish (and Certain Other Romance Languages) -- First-Person Singular Inversion in French -- Transitive, Intransitive and Reflexive Uses of Adjectival Verbs in French -- Morphological Constraints on Epenthesis and Adjunction: Paradigmatic or Cyclic? -- Clitic Movement in Spanish and the Projection Principle -- Past Participle Agreement in French: Agreement = Case -- Constraints on Rime-internal Syllabification in French: Eliminating Truncation Rules -- Variable Deletion of que in the spoken French of Ottawa-Hull -- On Predication and Identity within NP's -- Structure-preserving Properties of an Epenthetic Rule in Spanish -- Resetting the Parameters: Acquiring Spanish as L2 -- Clitic-Chains and the Definiteness Requirement in Doubling Constructions -- Gemination and the Proto-Romance Syllable Shift -- Quantifiers and Direct Object-Doubling -- Implicit Arguments and Control in Middles and Passives