Recent unrelated studies reveal what appears to be a common acquisitional pattern in
second language acquisition (SLA). While some findings show that advanced learners can …

This work concerns itself with Root Transformations (RT), specifically discussing the RT/non-
RT nature of topic fronting in English, Japanese, and Spanish. We claim that this fronting is …

This chapter investigates various licensing constraints imposed on shared subject
arguments in Romanian obligatory control constructions and argues for an analysis of …

A recent controversy in second language acquisition research concerns the extent to which
adult non-native intuitions differ from adult native intuitions at advanced and near-native …

Focus is a key notion to understand processes of syntactic and prosodic readjustments in
Romance. Since, prosodically, it must be the most prominent constituent in the sentence …

In this article we bring to light one additional factor underlying so-called Jespersen's Cycle
(JC) in Romance which has to date gone unnoticed, namely the varying position of the finite …

This article investigates the evolution of the Romanian pattern [dative clitic+'be'+ N](cf. Mi-e
foame, lit. me. dat= is hunger,'I'm hungry') from the 16th century until present-day Romanian …

Romanian, as well as certain varieties of Spanish (but not Iberian Spanish, French or Italian)
allow the clitic doubling of direct objects (indirect objects will be left out here), 1 a …

In many languages, including Românce and German, Focus Fronting (FF) is generally
associated with an emphatic intonation and interpretation, so that sentences hosting FF are …

This paper applies the split CP analysis in Rizzi (1997) to sentential complements in
Romanian. Empirical data indicate that declarative sentences exhibit a reduced CP …