This volume brings together a selection of papers from the eighteenth 'Going Romance' symposium, held at Leiden University, 9–11 December 2004. These papers cover a broad range of topics in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, and acquisition, in a variety of Romance languages.

Table of contents

Introduction v–vi Cualquier, Exception Phrases and Negation Ana Arregui 1–22 Agreement and Predicate Inversion in Spanish DP Anna Bartra and Xavier Villalba 23–41 Modes of Semantic Combinations: NP / DP. Adjectives and the Structure of the Romanian DP Alexandra Cornilescu 43–69 Where did Romance N-Raising come from? A Parallel Study of Parameter Resetting in Latin and English Paola Crisma and Chiara Gianollo 71–93 Null Complement Anaphora in Romance: Deep Or Surface Anaphora? Sonia Cyrino and Gabriela Matos 95–120 Benefactives aren’t Goals in Italian Raffaella Folli and Heidi Harley 121–142 T-to-C Movement in Relative Clauses Ángel J. Gallego 143–170 Properties of Infinitival Structures in Romance Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Ricardo Etxepare 171–196 Emphatic Affirmation and Polarity: Contrasting European Portuguese With Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan and Galician Ana Maria Martins 197–223 Language Variation and Historical Change: The Spread of DOM in Spanish Yukiko Morimoto and Peter de Swart 225–245 Special Interrogatives — Left Periphery, Wh-Doubling, and (Apparently) Optional Elements Hans-Georg Obenauer 247–273 Double Agreement in Complex Inversion Erik Schoorlemmer 275–295 Subextraction in Romance Interrogatives Jaume Solà and Anna Gavarró 297–315 Index 317–320