Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- I. Structure and interpretation of the Determiner Phrase -- Adjective position and the interpretation of indefinites -- Issues in the syntax of DP in Romance and Germanic -- The syntax and semantics of preverbal topical phrases in Spanish -- II. Clitics -- On the doubling of overt operators -- Interface conditions and the semantics of argument clitics -- Adverbial weak pronouns: Derivation and interpretation -- Universal constraints on 'superfluous' elements: The case of Galician 'Arb Che' -- Clitic-doubling and the acquisition of agreement in Spanish -- III. Verbal and temporal properties, and the structure of the clause -- The causee and the theory of bare phrase structure -- Temporal modification, the 24-hour rule and the location of reference time -- Ergative patterning in Spanish -- Morphological underspecification and overt subjects in child Catalan and Spanish -- Verbless derivations in historical syntax: A case study of Northwestern Iberian languages -- Subject index -- Language Index -- Contributors