Different components of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. It has been under debate what the actual range of interaction is and how we can most appropriately represent this in grammatical theory. The volume provides a general overview of various topics in the linguistics of Romance languages by examining them through the interaction of grammatical components and functions as a state-of-the-art report, but at the same time as a manual of Romance languages.

Table of contentsIntroduction: Grammatical interfaces in Romance linguisticsSusann Fischer (Hamburg) & Christoph Gabriel (Hamburg)I. Sound and structureI.1 Surface sound and underlying structure: The phonetics-phonology interfaceJosé Ignacio Hualde (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) & Ioana Chitoran (Dartmouth College)I.2 Segmental phonology and its interfaces; Marina Vigário (Lisboa)I.3 Prosodic phonology and its interfaces; Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie (Paris Diderot & CNRS)I.4 Romance phonology and morphology in Optimality Theory (OT); Maria-Rosa Llorret (Universitat de Barcelona)II. Structure and meaningII.1 Meaning of words and meaning of sentencesII. 2 Morphology and semantics: Aspect and modality; Eva-Maria Remberger (Konstanz)& Josep Quer (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)II.3 Romance verbal morphology in Distributed Morphology (DM)II.4 Specificity, determiners and differential object marking in RomanceKlaus von Heusinger (Stuttgart), Georg Kaiser (Konstanz) & Elisabeth Stark (Zürich)II.5 Agreement Restrictions in Romance; Roberta d'Alessandro (Leiden)II.6 Auxiliary Selection in Romance; Jaume Mateu Fontanals (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)III. Sound, structure, and meaningIII.1 Subjects, null subjects, and expletives; Michelle Sheehan (Cambridge)III.2 Romance clitics; Susann Fischer & Maria Goldbach (Hamburg)III.3 Nominalizations; Judith Meinschaefer (FU Berlin)III.4 Information structure, prosody, and word orderAndreas Dufter (LMU München) & Christoph Gabriel (Hamburg)III.5 Empirical approaches to information structure; Aria Adli (HU Berlin) OKIII.6 Ellipses: Gapping and VP/IP deletionIII.7 Existential and unaccusative constructionsIV. How interfaces develop and changeIV.1 Acquiring phonology and its interfaces: 2L1, L2, L3; Conxita Lleó (Hamburg)IV.2 Acquiring syntax and its interfaces: 2L1, L2, L3Tanja Kupisch (Lund/Hamburg)& Jason Rothman (University of Florida)IV.3 Language acquisition and change; Esther Rinke (Frankfurt)IV.4 Contact-induced change: The example of media lenguaIV.5 Romance-based creoles; Tonjes Veenstra (ZAS Berlin)IV.6 Grammaticalization and pragmaticalizationUlrich Detges (LMU München) & Richard Waltereit (Newcastle)IV.7 Changes in the syntax-discourse interface: Information structure; Kristine Gunn Eide (Oslo)Indices