"It provides a highly stimulating discussion of many issues relating to Romance syntax and contains new, provocative analyses." -- Kleanthes K. Grohmann, University of Frankfurt

• Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Framework: antisymmetry; Background: hierarchical structure and linear order; Some Inadequacies of the Symmetric View; Spec Head Complement as Universal Order; The Formulation of the LCA; LCA and its consequences; 2. The VSO/VOS Alternation in Spanish; Introduction; the VSO and VOS order in Spanish; The analysis of VSO and VOS; The asymmetries; Binding; Conclusion; 3. Focus and Post-Verbal Subjects in Romance; Introduction; Distribution of Post-verbal subjects in Italian, Catalan and French; Distribution of post-verbal subjects in Spanish; Post-verbal subjects in Neutral Phrase; Post-verbal subjects in Focus Phrase; Proposal: LPR with Post-verbal subjects; Consequences for nonarguments; Consequences for arguments; Spanish VOS order; Comparing LPR to the right adjunction alternative; Conclusion; 4. Inversion in Interrogatives in Spanish and Catalan; Introduction; Antisymmetry and the landing of clitics; The position of the post-verbal subjects in interrogatives; V-to-C and the free inversion construction; Piedmontese; The obligatoriness of inversion in Interrogatives in Spanish and Catalan; Conclusion; Appendix Left Dislocated Subjects and Pro-Drop Introduction; Empirical Evidence; Dislocated subjects. Previous accounts; person Agreement as a clitic; Conclusion; References; Index.

"It provides a highly stimulating discussion of many issues relating to Romance syntax and contains new, provocative analyses." -- Kleanthes K. Grohmann, University of Frankfurt

• Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Framework: antisymmetry; Background: hierarchical structure and linear order; Some Inadequacies of the Symmetric View; Spec Head Complement as Universal Order; The Formulation of the LCA; LCA and its consequences; 2. The VSO/VOS Alternation in Spanish; Introduction; the VSO and VOS order in Spanish; The analysis of VSO and VOS; The asymmetries; Binding; Conclusion; 3. Focus and Post-Verbal Subjects in Romance; Introduction; Distribution of Post-verbal subjects in Italian, Catalan and French; Distribution of post-verbal subjects in Spanish; Post-verbal subjects in Neutral Phrase; Post-verbal subjects in Focus Phrase; Proposal: LPR with Post-verbal subjects; Consequences for nonarguments; Consequences for arguments; Spanish VOS order; Comparing LPR to the right adjunction alternative; Conclusion; 4. Inversion in Interrogatives in Spanish and Catalan; Introduction; Antisymmetry and the landing of clitics; The position of the post-verbal subjects in interrogatives; V-to-C and the free inversion construction; Piedmontese; The obligatoriness of inversion in Interrogatives in Spanish and Catalan; Conclusion; Appendix Left Dislocated Subjects and Pro-Drop Introduction; Empirical Evidence; Dislocated subjects. Previous accounts; person Agreement as a clitic; Conclusion; References; Index.

"It provides a highly stimulating discussion of many issues relating to Romance syntax and contains new, provocative analyses." -- Kleanthes K. Grohmann, University of Frankfurt

• Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Framework: antisymmetry; Background: hierarchical structure and linear order; Some Inadequacies of the Symmetric View; Spec Head Complement as Universal Order; The Formulation of the LCA; LCA and its consequences; 2. The VSO/VOS Alternation in Spanish; Introduction; the VSO and VOS order in Spanish; The analysis of VSO and VOS; The asymmetries; Binding; Conclusion; 3. Focus and Post-Verbal Subjects in Romance; Introduction; Distribution of Post-verbal subjects in Italian, Catalan and French; Distribution of post-verbal subjects in Spanish; Post-verbal subjects in Neutral Phrase; Post-verbal subjects in Focus Phrase; Proposal: LPR with Post-verbal subjects; Consequences for nonarguments; Consequences for arguments; Spanish VOS order; Comparing LPR to the right adjunction alternative; Conclusion; 4. Inversion in Interrogatives in Spanish and Catalan; Introduction; Antisymmetry and the landing of clitics; The position of the post-verbal subjects in interrogatives; V-to-C and the free inversion construction; Piedmontese; The obligatoriness of inversion in Interrogatives in Spanish and Catalan; Conclusion; Appendix Left Dislocated Subjects and Pro-Drop Introduction; Empirical Evidence; Dislocated subjects. Previous accounts; person Agreement as a clitic; Conclusion; References; Index.