Introduction and acknowledgment

Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Luis López, and Richard Cameron

Phonology and morphology

Pronominal clitics in Picard revisited

Julie Auger

Spanish /s/: A different story from beginning (initial) to end (final)

Esther L. Brown and Rena Torres Cacoullos

Consonant intrusion in heterosyllabic consonant-liquid clusters in Old Spanish and Old French: An Optimality theoretical account

Fernando Martinez-Gil

A constraint interaction theory of Italian raddoppiamento

Mario Saltarelli

Pragmatics and sociolinguistics

Ground/Focus: A perspective from French

Claire Beyssade, Jean-Marie Marandin, and Annie Rialland

The subject clitics of Conversational European French: Morphologization, grammatical change, semantic change, and change in progress

Bonnie Fonseca-Greber and Linda R. Waugh

A scalar propositional negative polarity item in Spanish

Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Scott A. Schaventer

A pragmatic analysis of Imperfect Conditionals

Michela Ippolito

Indirect objects in ditransitive constructions in Brazilian Portuguese

Heloisa Maria M. Lima Salles and Maria Marta P. Scherre

Pragmatic variation in Spanish: External request modifications in Peninsular and Uruguayan Spanish

Rosina Márquez Reiter

Clitic simplification in a contact variety of Spanish: Third person accusative pronouns in the Mexican-American community of Houston

N. Ariana Mrak

The expression of topic in spoken Spanish: An empirical study

Francisco Ocampo

An adaptive approach to noun gender in New York contact Spanish

Ricardo Otheguy and Naomi Lapidus

Syntax

Properties of the double object construction in Spanish

Tonia Bleara

Spanish perception verbs and sequence of tenses: Aktionsart effects

Alicia Cipria

Defaults and competition in the acquisition of functional categories in Catalan and French

Lisa Davidson and Géraldine Legendre

Constraints on the meanings of Bare Nouns

Viviane Deprez

Null objects revisited

Jon Franco and Alazne Landa

Auxiliary choice and pronominal verb constructions: The case of the passé surcomposé

Kate Paesani

The lexical preverbal subject in a Romance Null Subject Language: Where are thou?

Margarita Suñer

Intervention effects in the French wh-in-situ construction: Syntax or interpretation?

Maria Luisa Zubizarreta

Index