ROMANCE SYNTAX, SEMANTICS, AND L2 ACQUISITION. Joaquim Camps and Caroline Wiltshire (Eds.). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2001. Pp. x + 246. $96.00 cloth.

This volume is a collection of 15 papers selected from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, organized by the University of Florida. In the introductory chapter, Camps and Wiltshire summarize the main ideas of the 14 contributions that follow, along five main subtopics: (a) movement, which includes chapters by Boeckx, Stateva, and Stepanov and Boeckx on wh-movement in French as well as a chapter on Determiner Phrase (DP) movement analysis of obligatory control structures in Portuguese by Pires; (b) the DP and SLA, a section that discusses work by Gess and Herschensohn on the DP parameter in French, adjective placement and semantic interpretation in French by Anderson, and a study on the discourse constraints on the use of null and overt subjects in Spanish L2 acquisition within an Optimality Theoretic account by La Fond, Hayes, and Bhatt; (c) word order and other syntactic factors in SLA are addressed in chapters by Clements and by Sagarra; (d) adverbials are the topic of a chapter by Abeillé and Godard; and (e) the syntax-semantics interface is examined in several contributions, including chapters on the aspectual verb ficar in Portuguese by Schmitt, on the Spanish subjunctive by Villalta, on unaccusative verbs in French by Cummins, and on impersonal reflexives in Romance and Slavic by Rivero.