Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003

1. An Integrated Approach to Variation in OT: Evidence from Brazilian Portuguese and Picard (by Cardoso, Walcir); 2. On Facts in the Syntax and Semantics of Italian (by Delfitto, Denis); 3. On the Status of Stems in Morphological Theory (by Embick, David); 4. Italian [VN] Compound Nouns: A Case for a Syntactic Approach to Word Formation (by Ferrari-Bridgers, Franca); 5. The Development of Liquids from Latin to Campidanian Sardinian: The Role of Contrast and Structural Similarity (by Frigini, Chiara); 6. Clitic Placement and the Position of Subjects in the History of European Portuguese (by Galves, Charlotte); 7. Subject Inversion in Spanish Relatice Clauses: A case of Prosody- Induced Word order Variation without Narrow Focus (by Gutierrez-Bravo, Rodrigo); 8. Attrition and Interpretable Features (by Helland, Corine); 9. Acceleration in Bilingual First Language Acquisition (by Kupisch, Tanja); 10. 'Focus VS': A Special Type of French NP subject inversion (by Lahousse, Karen); 11. Aspectual Quantization and [+-] Accusative Case Checking in Romance (by Martin, Juan); 12. Strata, Yes; Structure Preservation, No. Evidence from Spanish (by Roca, Iggy); 13. Durational Asymmetries and the Theory of Quantity: Temporal Proportions at Phonetic Interface (by Saltarelli, Mario); 14. What Lenition and Fortition Tell us about Gallo-Romance Muta cum Liquida (by Scheer, Tobias); 15. The Lazy Frenchman's Approach to the Subjunctive: Speculations on Reference to Worlds and Semantics Defaults in the Analysis of Mood (by Schlenker, Philippe); 16. Vowel Centralization in Romanian Verbs of Slavic Origin: Deliberate Exploitation of an Indigenous Sound Change? (by Schulte, Kim); 17. On the Rumanian ktpt Shift: Coda Lenition or Melodic Contamination? (by Seigneur-Froli, Delphine); 18. Evidence for a Cue-based Theory of Language Change and Language Acquisition: The Null Object in Brazilian Portuguese (by Lopes, Ruth E.V.); 19. Subject Index; 20. Author Index