The volumes Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory published in the series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001 is the third such volume. It presents a selection of the papers that have been presented at the occasion of Going Romance 2001 (XV) - which was held at the University of Amsterdam on December 6-8, 2001. The three-day program included a workshop on Determiners. The volume contains articles on specifics of one or more Romance languages or varieties: the architecture of the Determiner Phrase and properties of determiners, the left periphery of the sentence and clause structure, null elements and their interpretation, clitics, and other interesting phenomena in the Romance languages.

Table of contents

Introduction v Spanish De -Clauses Are Not Always in the Right Mood Luis Alonso-Ovalle 1–16 Mood and Focus Claudia Borgonovo 17–30 Null vs Overt Spec, TP in European Portuguese João Costa 31–47 Determiner Architecture and Phrasal Movement in French Lexifier Creoles Viviane Déprez 49–74 On the Relation between Focus, Prosody and Word Order in Romanian Edward Göbbel 75–92 Economy of Structure: The Case of Subject Clitics in Piedmontese Cecilia Goria 93–112 Identificational Focus vs Contrastive Focus: A Syntactic Distinction Daniela Isac 113–130 Null Objects and VP Ellipsis in European and Brazilian Portuguese Mary Aizawa Kato 131–153 From Non-Identity to Plurality: French Différent as an Adjective and as a Determiner Brenda Laca and Liliane Tasmowski 155–176 On the Non-Unitariness of NP Subject Inversion: A Comparison of French NP Subject Inversion in Interrogatives and Temporal Subordinates Karen Lahousse 177–192 Past Participle Agreement with Pronominal Clitics and the Auxiliary Verbs in Italian and French Paul Law 193–212 Deficient Pronouns and Linguistic Change in Portuguese and Spanish Ana Maria Martins 213–230 Nominalizations of French Psychological Verbs: Syntactic Complements and Semantic Participants Judith Meinschaefer 231–246 Notes on Vocative Case: A Case Study in Clause Structure Andrea Moro 247–261 Mapping out the Left Periphery of the Clause: Evidence from North Western Italian Varieties Sandra Paoli 263–277 The Left Periphery in Child French: Evidence for a Simply-Split CP Dorian Roehrs and Marie Labelle 279–294 Plural Indefinite DPs as Plural-Polarity Items Benjamin Spector 295–313 On the Status of the Partitive Determiner in Italian Gianluca Storto 315–330 Determiners and Weakly Discretised Domains Lucia M. Tovena 331–346 Index of languages and dialects 347–348 Subject Index 349–353