This volume emerges from the 29th annual conference of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Michigan, in 1999. Topics covered include: on becoming a clitic; the prenominal possessive in romance; and on the nature of bare nouns in Haitian Creole.

1. Preface; 2. On becoming a Clitic: The prenominal possessive in Romance (by Antrim, Nancy Mae); 3. Primary stress in Spanish (by Barkanyi, Zsuzsanna); 4. Spanish clauses without complementizer (by Brovetto, Claudia); 5. On the nature of bare nouns in Haitian Creole (by Deprez, Viviane); 6. Towards a syntax of adult Root Infinitives (by Etxepare, Ricardo); 7. Re-examining Spanish 'resyllabification' (by Face, Timothy L.); 8. On preverbal subjects in Spanish (by Goodall, Grant); 9. The semantics of Spanish free relatives (by Gutierrez-Rexach, Javier); 10. Split subject pronoun paradigms: Feature geometry and underspecification (by Heap, David); 11. Locative inversion, PP topicalization and the EPP (by Kempchinsky, Paula); 12. Contrast maintenance and intervocalic stop lenition in Spanish and Portuguese: When is it alright to lenite? (by Lewis, Anthony M.); 13. Epenthesis vs. Elision in Afro-Iberian language: A constraint-based approach to Creole phonology (by Lipski, John M.); 14. Contrastive discourse markers in Spanish: Beyond contrast (by Malamud Makowski, Monica); 15. Coda obstruents and local constraint conjunction in north-central Peninsular Spanish (by Morris, Richard E.); 16. Bare nouns and the morphosyntax of number (by Munn, Alan); 17. Non-logical if (by Quer, Josep); 18. Selecting atomic cells from temporal domains: Fixing parameters in Romance (by Rafel, Joan); 19. Non-homorganic nasal clusters in northern Italian dialects (by Repetti, Lori); 20. Romanian nominal structure, proforms, and genitive case checking (by Rubin, Edward J.); 21. Adjectival agreement within DP without feature movement (by Sleeman, Petra); 22. A constraint-based analysis of intraspeaker variation: Vocalic epenthesis in Vimeu Picard (by Steele, Jeffrey); 23. Aspect in the prepositional system of Romance (by Torrego, Esther); 24. A unified analysis of French and Italian en / ne (by Vermandere, Dieter); 25. Variation in Spanish aspiration and prosodic boundary constraints (by Wiltshire, Caroline R.); 26. General index