This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 32nd Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, dealing with linguistic theory as applied to the Romance languages, and on empirical studies on the acquisition of Romance, with studies on Romanian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romansch and Latin.The theoretical section contains contributions concentrating on specific properties of Romance at the syntax/semantics interface, on morphosyntactic issues, on subject licensing and case, and on phonology. The acquisition section includes contributions on first, bilingual and second language acquisition of functional structure, word structure, quantification and stress. Table of contentsPreface v Contents vii Part One. Theory Operator Asymmetries in Romanian: Syntax and/or Phonology Gabriela Alboiu 3–18 uantifier Scope and the Structure of faire-par Jean-Marc Authier and Lisa A. Reed 19–32 An OT Treatment of Palatal Fortition in Argentinian Spanish Gary K. Baker and Caroline R. Wiltshire 33–48 Person Licensing and the Derivation of PCC Effects Susana Béjar and Milan Rezac 49–62 On the Evolution of the Short High Vowels of Latin into Romance Andrea Calabrese 63–94 Weak Forms as Xo: Prenominal Possessives and Preverbal Adverbs in European Portuguese Ana Castro and João Costa 95–110 A Control-vs-Raising Theory of Dative Experiencers Maria Cristina Cuervo 111–130 Selective and Unselective Manner Operators Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Chad Howe 131–147 Residual Tobler-Mussafia in French Dialects Paul Hirschbühler and Marie Labelle 149–164 Events, States and the French Imparfait Marie Labelle 165–180 NP-Subject Inversion in French and (Preposed) Adverbs Karen Lahousse 181–196 Infinitive Clauses as Substitutes for Subjunctive Clauses in Brazilian Portuguese Heloisa Maria Moreira Lima-Salles 197–208 Weight and Opacity in Surmiran Jean-Pierre Montreuil 209–222 French Clitics and Object Splits: A Case Study in Microvariation Marie-Thérèse Vinet 223–244 Part Two. Acquisition Why is it Difficult to Reach Agreement? Larisa Avram and Martine Coene 247–262 Supporting the Separate Systems Hypothesis: A Case Study in Bilingual Acquisition of Italian and German Julia Berger-Morales and Manola Salustri 263–280 Analogy as a Learning tool in Second Language Acquisition: The Case of Spanish Stress Barbara E. Bullock and Gillian Lord 281–297 Acquiring the Syntax of beaucoup at a distance as a Bilingual Child: An Experimental Study Aafke Hulk, Janneke Peet and Leonie Cornips 299–316 Spanish L1/L2 Crossroads: Can We Get ‘There’ from ‘Here’? Juana M. Liceras 317–350 Null Subjects and the Setting of Subject Agreement Parameters in Child French Bernadette Plunkett 351–366 On the Nature of Root Infinitives in Adult L2 French Philippe Prévost 367–384 Subject Index 385–388