This collection of twenty articles, selected from the 33rd annualLinguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at Indiana University in2003, presents current theoretical approaches to a variety of issues inRomance linguistics. Invited speakers Luigi Burzio and José Ignacio Hualde contribute papers on the paradigmatics and syntagmatics of Italian verbal inflection and comparative/diachronic Romance intonation, respectively. The other papers, whose authors include both well-known researchers and younger scholars, represent such areas as French syntax (both synchronic and diachronic), second language acquisition (Spanish & English), Spanish intonation, phonology, syntax, and semantics, Italian semantics, Romanian morphology and syntax, Catalan phonology and morphology, and Galician phonology (two papers). The volume is rounded out by three explicitly comparative studies, one on proto-Romance phonology, one on microvariation in Romance syntax, and a third addressing syntactic microvariation among varieties of French and French-based creoles. Frameworks represented include Optimality Theory, Minimalism, and Construction Grammar. Table of contentsCase, Agreement, and Expletives: A parametric difference in Old French andModern French Deborah Arteaga and Julia Herschensohn 1–15 Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Relations in Italian Verbal Inflection Luigi Burzio 17–44 The Role of the L1 in the Overgeneralization of Causatives in L2 English and L2 Spanish Mónica Cabrera and María Luisa Zubizarreta 45–64 The Inchoative Interpretation of the Imperfecto Alicia Cipria 65–81 Reinterpreting the CV Transition: Emergence of the glide as an allophone of the palatal lateral Laura Colantoni 83–102 Intervocalic Velar Nasals in Galician Sonia Colina 103–120 Null Objects in French and English Sarah Cummins and Yves Roberge 121–138 Micro-Parametric Variation and Negative Concord Viviane Déprez and France Martineau 139–158 Contrast and Addition in Romance: A case study in microvariation Luis Eguren and Cristina Sánchez 159–176 On the Structure of Syncretism in Romanian Conjugation Ronald F. Feldstein 177–195 Sluicing in Romanian: A typological study Frederick Hoyt and Alexandra Teodorescu 197–215 Romance Intonation From a Comparative and Diachronic Perspective:Possibilities and limitations José Ignacio Hualde 217–237 Romance SE as an Aspectual Element Paula Kempchinsky 239–256 Proto-Romance *[w] and the Velar Preterites Eric Lief 257–274 The Phonological Role of Paradigms: The case of insular Catalan Maria-Rosa Lloret 275–297 A Constraint-Based Analysis of Galician Geada Fernando Martínez-Gil 299–320 Peak Placement in Two Regional Varieties of Peruvian Spanish Intonation Erin O'Rourke 321–341 On Intentional Causation in Italian Antonella Vecchiato 343–360 Inversion, Reconstruction, and the Structure of Relative Clauses Luis Vicente 361–379 Infinitival Complement Constructions in Spanish: A Construction Grammar approach Jiyoung Yoon 381–397 Index of Terms and Concepts 399–404