Romance languages and linguistic theory 2006 : selected papers from 'Going Romance', Amsterdam, 7-9 December 2006

1. Foreword 2. Unpronounced MUCH and the distribution of degree expressions in Spanish (by Androutsopoulou, Antonia) 3. The status of the (supposed) expletive in Brazilian Portuguese existential clauses (by Avelar, Juanito) 4. On the linearization of adjectives in Romanian (by Cornilescu, Alexandra) 5. Prepositionless genitive and N+N compounding in (Old) French and Italian (by Delfitto, Denis) 6. Vowel elision in spoken Italian (by Garrapa, Luigia) 7. Acoustic correlates of phonological microvariations: The case of unsuspected micro-parametric metaphonetic processes in a small area of Southern Salento (Apulia) (by Grimaldi, Mirko) 8. Romance lenition: Towards a formal account of a contrast maintaining phonetically motivated sound change (by Jacobs, Haike) 9. Main stress in Italian nonce nouns (by Kramer, Martin) 10. Negative concord as feature sharing (by Kuno, Masakazu) 11. Appositive sentences and the structure(s) of coordination (by Matos, Maria Gabriela Ardisson Pereira de) 12. Cleaving the interactions between sluicing and P-stranding (by Rodrigues, Cilene) 13. Another look at wh-questions in Romance: The case of Mendrisiottoand its consequences for the analysis of French wh-in situ and embedded interrogatives (by Poletto, Cecilia) 14. Index of subjects and terms