A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use

1. Table of contents; 2. Introduction and acknowledgment (by Nunez-Cedeno, Rafael); 3. Phonology and morphology; 4. Pronominal clitics in Picard revisited (by Auger, Julie); 5. Spanish /s/:: A different story from beginning (initial) to end (final) (by Brown, Esther L.); 6. Consonant intrusion in heterosyllabic cosonant-liquid clusters in Old Spanish and Old French:: An Optimality theoretical account (by Martinez-Gil, Fernando); 7. A constraint interaction theory of Italian raddoppiamento (by Saltarelli, Mario); 8. Pragmatics and sociolinguistics; 9. Ground/Focus:: A perspective from French (by Beyssade, Claire); 10. The subject clitics of European Conversational French:: Morphologization, grammatical change, semantic change, and change in progress (by Fonseca-Greber, Bonnie B.); 11. A scalar propositional negative polarity item in Spanish (by Gutierrez-Rexach, Javier); 12. A pragmatic analysis of Imperfect Conditionals (by Ippolito, Michela); 13. Indirect objects in ditransitive constructions in Brazilian Portuguese (by Lima-Salles, Heloisa Maria M.); 14. Pragmatic variation in Spanish:: External request modifications in Peninsular and Uruguayan Spanish (by Marquez Reiter, Rosina); 15. Clitic simplification in a contact variety of Spanish:: Third person accusative pronouns in the Mexican-American community of Houston (by Mrak, N. Ariana); 16. The expression of topic in spoken Spanish:: An empirical study (by Ocampo, Francisco); 17. An adaptive approach to noun gender in New York contact Spanish (by Otheguy, Ricardo); 18. Syntax; 19. Properties of the double object construction in Spanish (by Bleam, Tonia); 20. Spanish perception verbs and sequence of tenses:: Aktionsart effects (by Cipria, Alicia); 21. Defaults and competition in the acquisition of functional categories in Catalan and French (by Davidson, Lisa); 22. Constraints on the meanings of Bare Nouns (by Deprez, Viviane); 23. Null objects revisited (by Franco, Jon A.); 24. Auxiliary choice and pronominal verb constructions:: The case of the passe surcompose (by Paesani, Kate); 25. The lexical preverbal subject in a Romance Null Subject Language:: Where are thou? (by Suner, Margarita); 26. Intervention effects in the French wh-in-situ construction:: Syntax or interpretation? (by Zubizarreta, Maria Luisa); 27. Index