This volume contains selected papers from the 27th International Symposium on Romance Lanuages (LSRL XXVII), held in Irvine in February 1997. Focusing on theoretical perspectives, it covers expletive auxilliaries, negation and independent morphological development, and enclitic "-n" in Spanish.

1. Preface; 2. On Null Objects in Old French (by Arteaga, Deborah); 3. Spanish Codas and Overapplication (by Bakovic, Eric J.); 4. Verb Movement and its Effects on Determinerless Plural Subjects (by Benedicto, Elena E.); 5. Expletive Auxiliaries (by Brugger, Gerhard); 6. On the Structure of Declarative Clauses (by Echepare, Ricardo); 7. N/A of a N DP's: Predicate raising and subject licensing (by Espanol-Echeverria, Manuel); 8. Thetic and Categorical, Attributive and Referential: Towards an explanation of definiteness effects (by Etchegoyhen, Thierry); 9. Negation and Independent Morphological Development (by Grinstead, John); 10. Enclitic -n in Spanish (by Harris, James); 11. Je veux que parte Paul: A neglected construction (by Kampers-Manhe, Brigitte); 12. Mood Phrase, Case Checking and Obviation (by Kempchinsky, Paula); 13. Syllable Structure and Sonority Sequencing: Evidence from Emilian (by Loporcaro, Michele); 14. Condition on Feature Specification and Negative Lexicalization in Spanish (by Mallen, Enrique); 15. Vestigial Trochees in Oil Dialects (by Montreuil, Jean-Pierre Y.); 16. Definite/Zero Alternations in Portuguese: Towards a unification of topic constructions (by Raposo, Eduardo); 17. On Object-Clitic Placement in Italian Child Language (by Schaeffer, Jeannette); 18. On Borrowing as a Mechanism of Syntactic Change (by Silva-Corvalan, Carmen); 19. Subject Positions and the Roles of CP (by Silva-Villar, Luis); 20. Licensing DP-Internal Predication (by Sleeman, Petra); 21. From Being to Having: Questions about ontology from a Kayne / Szabolcsi syntax (by Uriagereka, Juan); 22. Pragmatic Transfer from Less Developed to More Developed Systems: Spanish deictic terms in Barcelona (by Vann, Robert E.); 23. Object Shift in Old French (by Zaring, Laurie); 24. Author index; 25. Language index; 26. Subject index