The Going Romance conferences are a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. Selected papers are published in the Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory volumes. This is the fourth such volume, containing a selection of the papers that have been presented at the 2002 conference, which was held at the StateUniversity of Groningen. The three-day program included a workshop onAcquisition. The articles in this volume focalize on specifics of one or more Romance languages or varieties: clausal structure, verb-movement, topic, focus and reinforcement constructions, nominal ellipsis, (absence of) pronouns in child language, and other current issues in Romance linguistics. Table of contentsTense, uantification and Clause Structure in EP and BP. Evidence from aComparative Study on Sempre Manuela Ambar, Manuela Gonzaga and Esmeralda Vailati Negrão 1 Early 'Pragmatic' Competence and its Implications regarding the NullSubject Phenomenon Cécile De Cat 17 On the Impact of French Subject Clitics on the Information Structure of theSentence Cécile De Cat 33 A Restricted View of Head Movement Heles Contreras 47 The Effects of Phonological Cues on the Syntax of Focus Constructions inSpanish Laura Dominguez 69 Optional Infinitives or Silent Auxes? New Evidence from Romance Cristina Dye 83 Dislocation, Clitic Resumption and Minmality. A Comparative Analysis ofLeft and Right Topic Constructions in Italian Mara Frascarelli 99 Focus on Negative Concord Daniela Isac 119 Romance and 'Something Else' Daniela Isac and Charles Reiss 141 Learnability Order in the French Pronominal System Jacqueline van Kampen 163 Nominal Ellipsis and Morphological Structure in Spanish Laura Kornfeld and Andrés Saab 183 The Development of Inalienable Possession in English and Spanish Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux, Cristina Schmitt and Alan Munn 199 Segmental and Featural Strategies to Avoid Adjacent Sibilant Segments inBalearic Catalan. An Optimality Account Claudia Pons Moll 217 -Tu in uebec French as a (Super)positive Marker Marie-Thérèse Vinet 235 Feature Checking and Object Clitic Omission in Child Catalan and Spanish Ken Wexler, Anna Gavarró and Vincenç Torrens 253 Index of languages and dialects 270 Subject Index 269