Preface......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 7
Table of contents......Page 9
Grammatical interfaces in Romance languages: An introduction......Page 11
I. Sound and structure......Page 31
1. Surface sound and underlying structure: The phonetics-phonology interface......Page 33
2. Segmental phenomena and their interactions: Evidence for prosodic organization and the architecture of grammar......Page 51
3. Prosodic phonology and its interfaces......Page 85
4. Phonology and morphology in Optimality Theory......Page 115
5. Inflectional verb morphology......Page 159
II. Structure and meaning......Page 195
6. Meaning of words and meaning of sentences......Page 197
7. Morphology and semantics: Aspect and modality......Page 223
8. (In)definiteness, specificity, and differential object marking......Page 251
9. Agreement restrictions and agreement oddities......Page 277
10. Auxiliary selection......Page 305
III. Sound, structure, and meaning......Page 337
11. Subjects, null subjects, and expletives......Page 339
12. Object clitics......Page 373
13. Nominalizations......Page 401
14. Information structure, prosody, and word order......Page 429
15 VP and TP ellipsis: Sentential polarity and information structure......Page 467
16. Existential constructions......Page 497
IV. The role of the interfaces in language acquisition and change......Page 527
17. Acquiring multilingual phonologies (2L1, L2 and L3): Are the difficulties in the interfaces?......Page 529
18. Interfaces with syntax in language acquisition......Page 561
19. The role of the interfaces in syntactic change......Page 597
20. Interfacing interfaces: Quechua and Spanish in the Andes......Page 617
21. Grammaticalization and pragmaticalization......Page 645
22. Changes at the syntax-discourse interface......Page 669
Index......Page 693