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Table of contents
Prefacev
Section I. French
French reduplication limits the arbitrariness of the sign3 Possessive à and de in informal Ontarian French: A long-standing case of linguistic variation15 Prenominal past pasticiples in French37 Formal representations of the French present tense77 Two aspectual structures illustrated by Pendant93 Preposition — complementizers in French105 Section II. Spanish
Multiple questions in English and Spanish121 Theories of phonological representation ans nasal consonants in Spanish153 An autosegmental approach to syllabification in Spanish169 Personal ‘a’, kinesis and individualition195 Resumptive pronoun strategy in Spanish217 A speech event analysis of tense and aspect in Spanish229 On linear order in Spanish275 Phonological implications of the perception of -s and -n in Puerto Rico Spanish287 Section III. Varia
A formal basis for positing underlying segments in Occitan323 Prosodic structure and the domain of assimilatory rules in old French343 Subjunctive complement in Rumanian355 A linguistic environment for comparative Romance syntax373 Word-final vowels in Romance: An instrumental analysis of Potuguese and Romanian447 Reflections on old French Morpho(phono)logy461 Saussure’s French connection475 The mysteries of the Orient: Special problems in Romance etymology501 Negative polarity and the Romance subjunctive517 Implications of neutralization processes in Portuguese for phonological abstactness531 Problems in the analysis of Portuguese participles in -do549 Variable deletion of -s in Latin: Its consequences for Romance565 Paradigm leveling in Latin and old Franch: A critical view of rule inversion579 Index of names601
Index of languages605
Subject index607
