The 20 papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 34th LSRL, held in Salt Lake City, in 2004. The papers deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in Romance Linguistics and include several from the conference parasession, which focused on experimental approaches to problems in Romance Linguistics. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in current issues in theoretical Romance Linguistics.

Table of contents

Preface vii–viii Determiner Sharing and Cyclicity in Wh-Movement Karlos Arregi and Naiara Centeno 1–19

The Acquisition of Object Clitic Constructions in Romanian Maria Babyonyshev and Stefania Marin 21–40

Systemic Markedness And Phonetic Detail In Phonology Travis G. Bradley 41–62

Quantifying Rhythmic Differences Between Spanish, English, and Hispanic English Phillip M. Carter 63–75

Phonetically-Driven Epenthesis Asymmetries In French and Spanish Obstruent-Liquid Clusters Laura Colantoni and Jeffrey Steele 77–96

Agree, the EPP-F and Further-raising in Spanish Gerardo Fernández-Salgueiro 97–107

Diminutives In Brazilian Portuguese and Output-Output Correspondence Marcelo Ferreira 109–123

Children's Production and Comprehension of Spanish Grammatical Aspect Miren Hodgson 125–143

Morpheme Realization and Morphological Coalescence: Evidence from Romanian Cristian Iscrulescu 145–159

Complex Nuclei in Articulatory Phonology: The Case of Romanian Diphthongs Stefania Marin 161–177

Phonetic Cues to Special Cases of Liaison: Looking for a Prosodic Domain Jessica Miller and Zsuzsanna Fagyal 179–196

Licit and Illicit Null Objects in L1 French Michaela Pirvulescu and Yves Roberge 197–212

Sluicing With Copula Luis Sáez 213–236

Bare nominals in Papiamentu and Brazilian Portuguese: an Exo-skeletal Approach Cristina Schmitt and Ellen-Petra Kester 237–256

Raddoppiamento sintattico (RS) and Word-medial Gemination in Italian: Are They The Same or Are They Different? The Evidence from Spontaneous Speech Mary Stevens and John Hajek 257–271

Romanian N-Words And The Finite/Non-Finite Distinction Alexandra Teodorescu 273–290

Perseverative Phonetic Effects in Bilingual Code-Switching Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Barbara E. Bullock, Christopher G. Botero and Kristopher Allen Davis 291–306

The preposition's preposition in Italian: Evidence For Boundedness of Space Christina M. Tortora 307–327

The Yo-Yo Effect: Priming in Subject Expression in Colombian Spanish Catherine E. Travis 329–349

Tonal levels in Puebla Mexico Spanish Declaratives and Absolute Interrogatives Erik W. Willis 351–363

Index 365–367