The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic

1. Foreword; 2. The noun phrase in Germanic and Romance: Common developments and differences (by Perridon, Harry); 3. Part I. Variation; 4. Scaling the variation in Romance and Germanic nominalizations (by Alexiadou, Artemis); 5. What all happens when a universal quantifier combines with an interrogative DP (by Cirillo, Robert); 6. Micro-diversity in Dutch interrogative DPs: A case study on the (dis)continuous wat voor 'n N-construction (by Corver, Norbert); 7. Noun phrase structure and movement: A cross-linguistic comparison of such/sadan/solch and so/sa/so (by Wood, Johanna L.); 8. A unified structure for Scandinavian DPs (by Lohrmann, Susanne); 9. A semantic approach to noun phrase structure and the definite - indefinite distinction in Germanic and Romance (by Stroh-Wollin, Ulla); 10. Definite determiners in two English-based creoles: Specificity or definiteness? (by Bobyleva, Ekaterina); 11. Part II. Change; 12. Form-function mismatches in (formally) definite English noun phrases: Towards a diachronic account (by Lucas, Christopher); 13. The emergence of the definite article in English: A contact-induced change? (by Crisma, Paola); 14. On the syntax of Romanian definite phrases: Changes in the patterns of definiteness checking (by Cornilescu, Alexandra); 15. Coexisting structures and competing functions in genitive word order (by Magni, Elisabetta); 16. Anaphoric adjectives becoming determiners: A corpus-based account (by Van de Velde, Freek); 17. From N to D: Charting the time course of the internal rise of French n-words (by Deprez, Viviane); 18. Index