Grammatical Categories: Variation in Romance Languages

Introduction: the biolinguistic perspective 1. The structure and interpretation of (Romance) complementizers 2. Variation in Romance k-complementizer systems 3. Sentential negation: adverbs 4. Sentential negation: clitics 5. The middle-passive voice: evidence from Albanian 6. The auxiliary: have/be alternations in the perfect 7. The noun (phrase): agreement, case and definiteness in an Albanian variety 8. (Definite) denotation and case in Romance: history and variation.

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