'Argument fronting in English, Romance CLLD and the left periphery'.

Starting from a discussion of the internal make-up of adverbial clauses this paper will show that the fairly widespread assumption that fronted topics in English and CLLD constituents in Romance occupy the same position leads to a number of problems. I will conclude that fronted topics in English occupy a higher position in the left periphery. The final part of the paper compares a number of views on the lower topic position in Romance.