In:Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology
Edited by Peter Herbeck and Natascha Pomino
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 291] 2026
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 27 February 2026
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.291.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.291.toc
Table of contents
PrefaceVII
Part I.Zero in morphology and its interfaces
Zero morphemes in the morphophonology of Catalan2
Eulàlia Bonet
Spanish VN compounds and the source of valued gender
and number features27
and number features27
Antonio Fábregas
Exocentric compounding and implicit heads: Insights from Romance argumental and possessive compounds57
Vitor Augusto Nóbrega
V-N compounds in French: An analysis without nulls88
Petra Sleeman
Zero affixes in verbal derivation: Transcategorial prefixation or parasynthetic verb formation?111
Irene Fally
Eva-Maria Remberger
Getting rid of zeroes: The morphosyntax of deadjectival ‘A-verbs’ in Italian140
Pamela Goryczka
Anne-Li Demonie
The simple and the periphrastic past in spoken (Valencian) Catalan
as evidence against zero in inflectional morphology181
as evidence against zero in inflectional morphology181
Peter Herbeck
Natascha Pomino
Part II.Zero in syntax and its interfaces
Indefinite object drop in Spanish218
Carlos Martínez-García
Non-coordinated null objects in Medieval French: A diachronic study251
Prudence de Pontbriand
Comparing null subjects and null objects: The role of syntactic function, sentential domain and animacy283
Nelli Kerezova
The inverse vocative in Sicilian regional Italian: Evidence for a null Vocative head308
Gabriele Ganau
Jan Casalicchio
Spatial expressions with implicit (and overt) arguments: A comparative study of French and Spanish334
Steffen Heidinger
Michelle Troberg
Author index
Subject index
