Foreword and acknowledgements
Editor’s introduction
Theory and practice in Romance linguistics today: The importance of the annual LSRL (Jurgen Klausenburger)

Part I. Morphophonology
On the origins of /i/ in Romanian (Margaret E.L. Renwick)
An acoustic investigation of nasal place neutralization in Spanish: Default place assignment and phonetic underspecification (Michael Ramsammy)
An acoustic study of rhotics in onset clusters in La Rioja (Christine Weissglass)
Mid front vowel lowering before rhotics in Ibero-Romance (Travis G. Bradley)
Plural formation in Galician (Sonia Colina)

Part II. Syntax
On bare subject relative clauses in Old French (Deborah Arteaga)
Directed motion in Medieval French (Michelle Troberg)
An ergative analysis of French valency alternations (Edit Doron/Marie Labelle)
Peninsular Spanish pre-nominal possessives in ellipsis contexts: A Phase-based account (Luis Sáez)
On the nature of nominal features: Agreement mismatches in Spanish conjoined structures (Violeta Demonte/Héctor Fernández-Alcalde/Isabel Pérez-Jiménez)
On the nature of bare nouns in Afro-Bolivian Spanish (Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach/Sandro Sessarego)
Negative imperatives in Portuguese and other Romance languages (Rerisson Cavalcante)

Part III. Semantic interfaces
Another look at Italian generic sentences (Alda Mari)
The agreement of collective DPs in Romanian (Blanca Croitor/Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin)
A multidominance account for conjoined questions in Romanian (Dafina Ratiu)
The Romanian verbal cluster and the theory of head movement (Ion Giurgea)
New challenges in the area of semantic dependencies: The Romanian epistemic constraint (Anamaria Falaus)
Polarity particles in English and Romanian (Donka F. Farkas)

Index

Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Seattle, Washington, March 2010