This volume investigates current syntactic and semantic issues within various Romance languages. The collection, stemming from the 'Going Romance' 1999 conference, features articles on Catalan, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Northern Italian dialects. While negation is a prominent theme, other topics explored include Wh- in situ, free relatives, exclamatives, lexical decomposition, thematic structure, unaccusative inversion, and temporal existential constructions. Many contributions adopt a comparative approach, relating Romance and non-Romance languages to principles of Universal Grammar, utilizing theoretical frameworks such as Principles and Parameters and HPSG.

This collection of papers from 'Going Romance' 1999 offers a snapshot of contemporary research in Romance linguistics, focusing on syntactic and semantic phenomena. The diverse topics covered, from negation to complex sentence structures, highlight the ongoing theoretical debates within the field. The comparative nature of many articles, linking specific language features to broader principles of Universal Grammar, positions the work within established theoretical linguistics. The adoption of varied theoretical frameworks suggests a dynamic and evolving research landscape.