This volume emerges from the 29th annual conference of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1999. Topics covered include: on becoming a clitic; the prenominal possessive in romance; on the nature of bare nouns in Haitian Creole; the semantics of Spanish free relatives; split subject pronoun paradigms; non-lexical "if"; and Romanian nominal structure, proforms and genitive case checking among others.